Question:
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We humans can play the piano . of course we play the piano with our ten fingers . But Teotronica can play with its 19 fingers . Teotronica is not a human . It is a robot . It is a special robot which can play the piano like humans . Nattei Suzzi is the inventor of Teotronica . Matteo Suzzi comes from Italy and he is more than thirty years old . He was interested in science when he was young . He always likes to use his head to create amazing things . He spent four years making the musical robot . He made the piano-playing robot at a cost of about 4,700 dollars . Teotronica is a special and great robot . It has more fingers than humans . It plays the piano faster than a human . Teotronica can sing as well when it plays the piano . It is the first robot to do so and many people feel excited to see it ,. Teotronica can even use its eyes to interact with humans because there are cameras in its eyes .Teotronica is amazing , isn't it ?
1. Who can play the piano?
2. With what?
3. Who plays with 19 fingers?
4. is it human?
5. What is it?
6. Can it play faster than a human?
7. Who invented it?
8. Where is he from?
9. and how old?
10. What was he interested in as a child?
11. What did he use to create things?
12. How long did it take to make the robot?
13. And how much?
14. Does he just play the piano?
15. What else?
16. Is it the 1st to do this?
17. How do people feel about this?
18. Does he interact with humans?
19. Using what?
20. How?

Numbered answers:
1. humans
2. our ten fingers
3. Teotronica
4. no
5. a robot
6. yes
7. Nattei Suzzi
8. Italy
9. more than thirty years old
10. science
11. his head
12. four years
13. about 4,700 dollars
14. no
15. Teotronica can sing
16. yes
17. people feel excited
18. yes
19. its eyes
20. here are cameras in its eyes

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Many people consider their pets members of the family and are very sad when they die, but what if you could clone your dog, cat or bird?

A scientist in New Orleans, who has proved his ability to clone other animals, is now offering the possibility to pet owners here in Wisconsin.

Scientists have not been able to clone dogs, cats or other pets, but if and when the time comes, several companies will be ready and able to do the job.

The question is: Are you ready to clone your pet? Brett Reggio is betting on it.He is working on his Ph. D at Louisian State University. He's successfully cloned a goat five times and wants to try the process on family pets. So he started a business called Lazaron. "What Lazaron provides is the first step in the cloning process. "He said."It's for curing and storing the fiberglass cells that will be used for cloning."

"Your first reaction is yeah! I think I'd like that." said Donna Schacht, a pet owner.

"I don't believe you can ever replace a special love," pet owner Paulette Callattion said.

Most pet owners will tell you freezing your pet's DNA in hopes of one day cloning it is a personal decision.

Scientists say that cloning your own pet doesn't mean that the offspring will have the same intelligence, temperament or other qualities that your pet has.
1. Are scientists allowed to clone pets?
2. What is Reggio's occupation?
3. Has he cloned anything?
4. What?
5. How many times?
6. What does he want to clone next?
7. Did he start a business?
8. Called what?
9. Which stage of the cloning procedure does it perform?
10. What is stored in this step?
11. What are they used for?
12. What is Schacht's first reaction?
13. What about Callattion?
14. How can pet owners prepare for when cloning is legal?

Numbered answers:
1. no
2. doctoral student
3. yes
4. a goat
5. five
6. pets
7. yes
8. Lazaron
9. first
10. fiberglass cells
11. cloning
12. she likes it
13. Doesn't think it replace a special love
14. freezing their pet's DNA

Question:
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When Lew Alcindor was 13, and obviously still growing, a group of schools began offering him scholarships . The Alcindors decided to send their only child to Power Memorial Academy, a small school on Manhattan's West Side. At Power, Alcindor came under the control of Coach Jack Donohue, a strict young an who already gained his fame as one of the best coaches in the city.Donohue brought Alcindor along slowly.As a first-year student, the boy was not able to do much but wave his long skinny arms and shoot a basket now and then.But by the second year, when he was 15 years old and nearly 7 feet tall, Alcindor was quick and skillful enough to make the high school All-American team and to lead Power to an undefeated season. From then on he simply got better.Some rival coaches used to take their teams quickly away from the floor before Power warmed up so that their players would not see him any sooner than they had to.Wearing size 16 D shoes and sucking a lollipop , Alcindor would loosen up by starting his leaping lay-ups .Then he would casually shoot the ball with either hand, to the delight of the fans. When reporters and photographers began to follow Alcindor closely, Donohue protected his boy firmly.He simply ordered Lew to talk to no member of the press, and this suited Lew fine.He was not comfortable talking to grown-ups, perhaps because he towered over them.Discouraged photographers began following him in secret as though he were an easily-frightened giraffe.Once after ducking into a subway to escape, Alcindor told a friend that it was all becoming like policemen and robbers."People want you not for yourself," Donohue warned him, "but because you're a basketball player.Don't forget that."
1. What is on the west side of the city?
2. Who was sent there?
3. At what age?
4. Who sent him?
5. Does he have many siblings?
6. Why not?
7. Is the school large?
8. Who watched after him while he was there?
9. Is he a good coach?
10. In which sport?
11. Did Alcindor have small feet?
12. What size are they?
13. Is he 7 feet tall?
14. What candy was he eating?
15. How would he warm up at first?
16. Where did he try to get away?
17. Who was he evading?
18. Were they stalking him?
19. What animal was he compared to?
20. Where is the school located?
Numbered answers:
1. Power Memorial Academy
2. Lew Alcindor
3. 13
4. his parents
5. no
6. he's an only child
7. no
8. Coach Jack Donohue,
9. yes
10. basketball
11. no
12. ize 16 D shoes
13. when he was 15 years old and nearly 7 feet tall, so probably taller now
14. a lolly
15. leaping lay-ups
16. A subway
17. photographers
18. The coach had ordered Lew to talk no journalist
19. an easily-frightened giraffe
20. Manhattan's West Side.