Q: Mary is getting married next Saturday.Today she asks her best friend Lucy to shop for clothes to wear at the wedding.'So what are we looking for, Mary,' Lucy asks. 'Well, my parents want me to wear a traditional Chinese dress, but I prefer a more modern style.I think I'll buy two dresses and wear them at different times on my wedding day.' Mary answers.The girls look in many shops.At one shop, Mary tries on a Chinese-style dress.'I like it,' Lucy says.'Red is a very strong color and represents love and prosperity for Chinese weddings.I think your parents will be pleased. ' Mary does not look happy.'I don't think I look good in red. I think it makes me look too od. What about this blue one?' 'Well, that's a nice dre ss too, but blue is a calm color.It could help you feel calm, but I think you want a happier color for your wedding.If you don't like red, what about orange? It represents joy and it is a good color for weddings,' Lucy explains. After listening to Lucy's opinions, Mary says, 'Even though the orange dress would be the best for my wedding because it represents joy, I'll choose the red dress because it will remind my mother of her own wedding and will make her happy.'

1. it makes her look old
2. bue
3. Lucy
4. orange
5. Mary is getting married
6. Saturday
7. Lucy
8. clothes
9. the wedding
10. a traditional dress
11. a modern one
12. two
13. many
14. red
15. love and prosperity
16. joy
17. red
18. to make her mother happy
19. it will remind her of her wedding
20. calm

Numbered questions:
1. How does Mary feel about red?
2. What color does she want instead
3. Who thinks she should get red?
4. What is Lucy's second choice?
5. Why are they shoping
6. When
7. Who is Mary's best friend?
8. what item are they shopping for?
9. What are the clothes for?
10. what do her parents thing she should wear
11. and Mary?
12. How many does she plan to buy?
13. How many stores do they go to?
14. What color is the first dress?
15. What does red signify?
16. What about orange?
17. What color does she go with?
18. why?
19. how?
20. What kind of color is blue?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. A cappella [a kapplla] (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It contrasts with cantata, which is accompanied singing. The term "a cappella" was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato style. In the 19th century a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music. The term is also used, albeit rarely, as a synonym for alla breve.

A cappella music was originally used in religious music, especially church music as well as anasheed and zemirot. Gregorian chant is an example of a cappella singing, as is the majority of secular vocal music from the Renaissance. The madrigal, up until its development in the early Baroque into an instrumentally-accompanied form, is also usually in a cappella form. Jewish and Christian music were originally a cappella,[citation needed] and this practice has continued in both of these religions as well as in Islam. 1. What is Gregorian chant an example of?
2. What does that mean?
3. What does it mean in Italian?
4. Is the madrigal a cappella?
5. When did someone add instruments?
6. Was most music from the Renaissance a cappella?
7. Do religions use it?
8. How many?
9. Which ones?
10. Is there another one?
11. Is it used as a synonym?
12. What is a synonym for alla breve?
13. How often is it used that way?
14. What is accompanied singing called?
15. Did a cappella always mean unaccompanied singing?
16. Did it have something to do with Polyphony?
17. what kind?
18. Is this different from Baroque concertato
19. When did a cappella get it's current meaning?
20. Was this due to some kind of ignorance?
numbered_answers: 1. of a cappella singing,
2. singing without instrumental accompaniment,
3. "in the manner of the chapel"
4. Usually
5. in the early Baroque
6. the majority of secular vocal music was
7. yes
8. Three
9. Jewish and Christian
10. Islam
11. unknown
12. A cappella
13. rarely
14. cantata
15. no
16. Yes
17. Renaissance
18. yes
19. In the 19th century
20. yes

1 always figured that comedians were the best kind of people to hang around with as a kid. They tell funny stories, make joke after joke, and happiness seems never to leave them. But time goes on, and we come to see these same people as clowns on the outside, but crying a river in the inside. Comedy from these people comes from a deep pain and sadness in their lives, or out of a deep-seated anger they have at the world around them.

Look at Richard Pryor, need I say more? Richard seemed to have everything. For Superman m , he ended up getting more money than Christopher Reeve did. Yet he said while he was in his forties that the last truly happy moment he remembered in his life was when he was jumping around in the dirt while pretending to be a cowboy at the age of 10. This guy set himself on fire, and he played that for laugh while performing live at the Sunset Strip ! Comedy was his constant weapon against pain, and he never held anything back.

The movie Funny People understand very well this gloomy field many comedians have to survive in. It stars Adam Sandler as George Simmons, a famous comedian in the movie. Simmons has it all: a beautiful mansion overlooking the sea, a swimming pool,great cars, and so on. But in his eyes, we see that he is a sad man who has come to truly look down upon himself for what he has become. All the wealth he has collected only serves to separate him from the rest of the world and it makes him defensive when around total strangers who cannot see him as a normal person. But now, he hears from his doctor that he has a terminal disease and has only months left to live. Simmons reacts to this news as if someone took away his blood in the heart, and it makes him clearly see just how much he hates his life. So now he has to make every minute count.

Then come a series of funny stories.

Comedy is just life as it is, isn't it? What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who is the lead in Funny People?
2. What did the author like about comedians as a child?
3. Why?
4. What truth did he come to find out about them?
5. What outrageous thing did Richard Pryor do?
6. Why did he do that?
7. Who played the original Superman?
8. What was the last happy moment that Richard Pryor remembers?
9. How old was he at that time?
10. What is the author's conclusion about comedy?
11. What bad news did George Simmons get?
12. And what was his reaction to this news?
13. And what does he come to realize?
Answer:
1. Adam Sandler
2. They were the best kind of people to hang around with
3. They tell funny stories, make joke after joke, and happiness seems never to leave them
4. Their comedy comes from deep pain and sadnessde. Comedy from these people comes from a deep pain and sadness in their lives
5. This guy set himself on fire
6. For a laugh
7. Christopher Reeve did.
8. Jumping around in the dirt while pretending to be a cowboy.
9. f 10
10. Comedy is just life as it is
11. He has only months to live
12. As if someone took away the blood in his heart
13. That he hates his life and now needs to make every minute count