Pedro Rossi is happy--he is very,very happy! He won $500,000! He won the lottery ! Pedro is happy for only a few days. Then he remembers his lottery ticket! He throws it in the garbage _ ! Pedro runs to the garbage can and looks in it. The garbage can is not over there at all! "The garbage is gone,"his wife says. "The garbage truck comes in the morning." The garbage truck takes the garbage can to the garbage dump ! Pedro runs to the dump. He looks for it for two days. But he can't find it. Pedro lives in town in Brazil. Pedro tells the people in the town,"Look for my lottery ticket at the dump. If you find it,I can give you half the money." Everyday hundreds of people go to the dump to look for the ticket. Five days later,a man finds it. Pedro gives the man $250,000. Pedro won $500,000 in the lottery. Now he won only 250,000. But he is not sad. "Before,one man was happy,"Pedro says. "Now two men are happy!"

1. Why was Pedro so happy?
2. Did his happiness last long?
3. What happened take make his happiness so short lived?
4. Where was it?
5. Was he able to find it in the garbage can?
6. Why not?
7. When did the garbage truck pick it up?
8. Where does the city's garbage end up?
9. Why were so many people headed towards the garbage dump?
10. What was their incentive to do this?
11. Did anyone find the ticket?
12. Who?
13. Was Pedro happy for the man who found the ticket?
14. How long did it take for someone to find the ticket?
15. Where does Pedro live?
16. Who reminded him that the garbage had been taken out already?
17. How did he get to the dump?
1. he won $500,000
2. no
3. he remembered where the ticket is
4. in the garbage
5. no
6. The garbage is gone,
7. in the morning
8. the garbage dump
9. to look for the ticket
10. getting half the money
11. yes
12. a man
13. yes
14. Five days
15. Brazil
16. his wife
17. he ran