input: When a tornado touched down in a small town nearby, many families were left completely destroyed. Afterward all the local newspapers carried many human-interest stories featuring some of the families who suffered the hardest.

One Sunday, a particular picture especially touched me. A young woman stood in front of an entirely shattered mobile home, a depressed expression twisting her features. A young boy, seven or eight years old, stood at her side, eyes downcast. Clutching at her skirt was a tiny girl who stared into the camera, eyes wide with confusion and fear.

The article that went with the picture gave the clothing sizes of each family member. With growing interest, I noticed that their sizes closely matched ours. This would be a good opportunity to teach my children to help those less fortunate than themselves. I taped the picture of the young family to our refrigerator, explaining their difficulty to my seven-year-old twins, Brad and Brett, and to three- year-old Meghan.

" We have so much. And these poor people now have nothing," I said."We'll share what we have with them."

I brought three large boxes down from the room upstairs and placed them on the living room floor. Meghan watched seriously, as the boys and I filled one of the boxes with canned goods and foods.

While I sorted through our clothes, I encouraged the boys to go through their toys and donate some of their less favorite things. Meghan watched quietly as the boys piled up discarded toys and games.

"I'll help you find something for the little girl when I'm done with this," I said.

The boys placed the toys they had chosen to donate into one of the boxes while I filled the third box with clothes. Meghan walked up with Lucy, her worn, faded, much-loved rag doll hugged tightly to her chest. She paused in front of the box that held the toys, pressed her round little face into Lucy's flat, painted-on-face, gave her a final kiss, then laid her gently on top of the other toys.

"Oh, Honey," I said."You don't have to give Lucy. You love her so much."

Meghan nodded seriously, eyes glistening with held-back tears. '"Lucy makes me happy, Mommy. Maybe she'll make that other little girl happy, too."

_ , I stared at Meghan for a long moment, wondering how I could teach the boys the lesson she had just taught me. For I suddenly realized that anyone can give their cast-offs away. True generosity is giving that which you value most.

Honest benevolence is a three-year-old offering a valuable, though shabby, doll to a little girl she doesn't know with the hope that it will bring this child as much pleasure as it brought her. I, who had wanted to teach, had been taught.

The boys had watched, open-mouthed, as their baby sister placed her favorite doll in the box. Without a word, Brad rose and went to his room. He came back carrying one of his favorite action figures. He hesitated briefly, clutching the toy, then looked over at Meghan and placed it in the box next to Lucy.

A slow smile spread across Brett's face. Then he jumped up, eyes twinkling as he ran to fetch some of his prized Matchbox cars.

Astonished, I realized that the boys had also recognized what little Meghan's gesture meant. Swallowing back tears, I pulled all three of them into my arms.

Taking the cue from my little one, I removed my old jacket from the box of clothes. I replaced it with the new hunter green jacket that I had found on sale last week. I hoped the young woman in the picture would love it as much as I did.

It's easy to give that which we don't want any more, but harder to let go of things we cherish, isn't it? However, _ 1. What type of natural disaster happened?
2. Who stared at the camera?
3. What was the picture on the fridge of?
4. Who did she have to explain their difficulty to?
5. Who else?
6. What was her name?
7. What were the twins' names?
8. What did they donate?
9. What else?
10. What did the girl donate?
11. What did the woman donate? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. tornado
2. unknown
3. young family
4. seven-year-old twins
5. three- year-old
6. Meghan
7. Brad and Brett
8. canned goods and foods
9. clothes,toys less favorite things, games.
10. Lucy
11. clothes

question: At Buya in Eritrea, one of the oldest hominids representing a possible link between Homo erectus and an archaic Homo sapiens was found by Italian scientists. Dated to over 1 million years old, it is the oldest skeletal find of its kind and provides a link between hominids and the earliest anatomically modern humans. It is believed that the section of the Danakil Depression in Eritrea was also a major player in terms of human evolution, and may contain other traces of evolution from Homo erectus hominids to anatomically modern humans.

The Scottish traveler James Bruce reported in 1770 that Medri Bahri was a distinct political entity from Abyssinia, noting that the two territories were frequently in conflict. The Bahre-Nagassi ("Kings of the Sea") alternately fought with or against the Abyssinians and the neighbouring Muslim Adal Sultanate depending on the geopolitical circumstances. Medri Bahri was thus part of the Christian resistance against Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi of Adal's forces, but later joined the Adalite states and the Ottoman Empire front against Abyssinia in 1572. That 16th century also marked the arrival of the Ottomans, who began making inroads in the Red Sea area.
1. Who was the traveler?
2. Where was he from?
3. Did he report on three terrtories?
4. How many did he report on?
5. What were they?
6. What was their name?
7. Did one of those regions have a nickname?
8. Was it "Jewels of the Ocean"?
9. Was it French researchers who discovered a similarity between early men?
10. Who was it?
11. What date was that discovery made?
12. Were these links the oldest finds of their type?
13. What happened in 1572?
14. Against what region?
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answer: 1. James Bruce
2. Scotland
3. No
4. two
5. territories
6. Medri Bahri and Abyssinia
7. Yes
8. No
9. no
10. Italian
11. unknown
12. yes
13. Medri Bahri joined the Adalite states
14. Adal's forces

Question: There are 5 channels on British television and each channel has several news programs all day long. Some programs are only for 3 minutes but some are one hour long. The people who read the news are called news presenters and because they appear on television every day, they are very famous. This is a popular news presenter in England called Trevor McDonald, in the news studio. He presents a program called "News at Ten"every Monday to Friday evenings. Another popular news presenter is Kirsty Young. She has a more modern style of reading the news, as you can see, she sits on the desk not on a chair! Television news presenters need to have worked as journalists because they have to write most of the news that they read. Sometimes an important new event happens after the program has started, so the presenter has to be able to read something without looking at it first. They must always keep calm even when there are many changes during the program. At the end of "News at Ten"Trevor McDonald says "And finally...". Then he reads an unusual or interesting item. It's a famous saying in England now. 1. What do news presenters do?
2. Are they famous?
3. Where can they been seen?
4. How often?
5. How many channels does British TV have?
6. How long are the shows?
7. How long are others?
8. What kind of shows are they?
9. Are they news shows
10. Does Trevor MacDonald star on one?
11. Which one?
12. When does it air? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. read the news
2. yes
3. on television
4. every day,
5. Five
6. some are one hour long
7. only 3 minutes
8. several
9. yes
10. yes
11. "News at Ten
12. every Monday to Friday evenings