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Sally liked going outside. She put on her shoes. She went outside to walk. She walked on the green grass. The sun was warm. The trees were tall. The birds sang in the trees. Sally liked how the birds can sing. Sally likes to sing with the birds, outside. Ring, ring, is how the birds sang. Sally sang ring, ring, with the birds in the trees. Sally took off her shoes. Sally liked how the green grass was on her toes. Sally's toes liked the green grass. Sally walked on the green grass some more. She saw Missy the cat. Missy the cat meowed to Sally. Sally waved to Missy the cat. Sally likes Missy the cat. Sally likes to meow to Missy the cat. Meow, meow, Sally says to Missy the cat. Missy the cat walks away from Sally. Sally hears her name. Sally, Sally, come home, Sally's Mom calls out. Sally runs home to her Mom. Sally liked going outside.
1. Does Sally like being outdoors?
2. What does Sally like to feel on her feet?
3. What color is it?
4. What kind of animal is Missy?
5. What did Sally do when she saw Missy?
6. Did Missy meow to Sally?
7. Did Sally meow back?
8. What other animals did Sally talk to that day?
9. Who called Sally's name?
10. What was the weather like?

Numbered answers:
1. yes
2. grass
3. green
4. cat
5. waved
6. yes
7. yes
8. birds
9. Sally's Mom
10. warm

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"He never asked nor accepted any reward, because he was good and simple and did not think that one did good for a reward." (Primo Levi, If This Is A Man)

Gino Bartali wanted to keep it to himself.

How could a man, so famous and so revered, keep it a secret for so long?

"Good is something you do, not something you talk about," Bartali once explained. "Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket."

He was Italy's very own version of Babe Ruth -- a man whose personality, character and success transcended sport.

In the 1930s, Bartali, a son of Tuscany, was one of the leading cyclists in the world, a man admired by all.

He had won three Giro d'Italia titles -- one of the three major European cycling events -- in addition to his triumph at the 1938 Tour de France and was very much the country's poster boy.

And yet for a man who lived in his life in the full glare of the public, a new film, My Italian Secret reveals a very different side to Bartali's remarkable life.

Directed by Oren Jacoby, the film shows how Bartali was part of a secret Italian resistance movement which helped hide the country's Jews during the Nazi invasion of 1943.

Using the handlebars on his bike to hide counterfeit identity papers, Bartali would ride to Jews in hiding and deliver their exit visas which allowed them to escape transportation to the death camps -- he is credited with saving the lives of 800 people.
1. Who kept a secret?
2. What was his secret?
3. In what year?
4. During what?
5. Who did he help?
6. What's the title of the film?
7. And its director?
8. Where was Bartali from?
9. Did everyone admire him?
10. What was his sport?
11. Did he win the Tour de France?
12. How many times?
13. What did he deliver
14. Where were they hidden
15. How many did he save?

Numbered answers:
1. Gino Bartali
2. he was part of a secret Italian resistance movement
3. 1943
4. the Nazi invasion of 1943
5. Jews
6. My Italian Secret
7. Oren Jacoby
8. Tuscany
9. Yes
10. Cycling
11. Yes
12. Once
13. counterfeit identity papers
14. the handlebars on his bike
15. 800

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- It's been five years since Carrie Bradshaw journeyed to Paris in search of true love on the series finale of "Sex and the City." She appeared to have found it in the arms of Mr. Big, and she returned to New York -- and her now-settled friends -- ready for a new start.

Sarah Jessica Parker was a driving force in creating the "Sex and the City" movie.

Then came the inevitable cry: That's it? What happens next?

Sarah Jessica Parker, who played Carrie, wanted to find out as well. But the situation had to be right, she said, which prompted a cascade of rumors as plans for a movie came together, fell apart and came together again.

Now that the movie is out, Parker -- who's a producer of the film as well as one of its stars -- talked about the journey to making a big-screen "Sex and the City" with "Showbiz Tonight" anchor A.J. Hammer. The following is an edited version of that interview.

CNN: I think a lot of fans, maybe a lot of people, and those of you among the cast, didn't think this day would actually ever come ... but here we are. So how are you feeling deep inside, Sarah?

Sarah Jessica Parker: I feel extraordinarily privileged. I've spent the last two years cobbling this movie together. ... It's a once-in-a-lifetime kind of professional experience and one really shouldn't be greedy enough to ask for it twice. Watch the cast talk about the thrill of "Sex" "
1. Who's the article about?
2. And what famous TV series?
3. Who was her beau on the show?
4. Who was her character?
5. What other role does Parker have with the movie besides actress?
6. Where does Brandshaw follow Mr. Big to?
7. Where does she return to?
8. Who does she return to?
9. Who is the anchor Parker talks to?
10. Of what media outlet?

Numbered answers:
1. Sarah Jessica Parker
2. "Sex and the City"
3. Mr. Big
4. Carrie Bradshaw
5. producer
6. Paris
7. New York
8. her friends
9. A.J. Hammer
10. CNN

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Tony loved basketball. One afternoon on his way to a basketball game, he was walking and dreaming about playing college basketball the next year. Suddenly a car hit him and he was thrown three meters into the air. Tony woke up in a hospital room. When the doctor told him that both his legs were broken, he knew his college basketball dreams were over. Tony did what the doctors told him. But it didn't work when he left the hospital, Tony was sent to a _ center for physical treatment. A week after he arrived there, he met Sunny Chen. Sunny used to be a coach. His legs were hurt badly in a skating accident. Though he couldn't move his legs, Sunny became a coach of a basketball team called The Sun. It was a wheelchair basketball team, because everybody on the team played on a wheelchair. Sunny invited Tony to join the game. Tony played badly, but for the first time since the accident, he stopped feeling sorry for himself. After becoming a part of The Sun, Tony improved quickly. Playing basketball was like medicine for him. Tony was much better that before. When Tony became sad or angry, Sunny was there to help him. The day before Tony left the center, he had dinner with Sunny. He asked Sunny how he could be so happy, even with his broken legs. Sunny smiled and said, "It's really quite easy. When you keep your face to the sun, the shadow falls behind."
1. How was Tony injured?
2. what was he doing when it happened?
3. about what?
4. what injuries did he sustain?
5. where was he sent after the hospital?
6. who did he meet there?
7. how had he been injured?
8. could he walk?
9. did he still play basketball?
10. what was the name of the team?
11. how do they play basketball?
12. did Tony decide to play?
13. Was he good at first?
14. what happened the more he practiced?
15. Did Sunny also help him emotionally?
16. what is Sunny's secret to happiness?
17. is it difficult?
18. does Tony still feel sorry for himself?
19. was joining the team therapeutic for him?
Numbered answers:
1. car hit him
2. walking and dreaming
3. about playing college basketball
4. both his legs were broken
5. center for physical treatment
6. Sunny Chen
7. in a skating accident
8. no
9. yes
10. The Sun
11. on a wheelchair
12. yes
13. no
14. improved quickly
15. yes
16. When you keep your face to the sun, the shadow falls behind.
17. It's really quite easy
18. no
19. yes