Question: question: Andrew Engel was puzzled. He was sitting in class, but had no idea what the other students were talking about. He had done his homework, paid attention to lectures, and taken notes, but nothing was familiar. "Everyone is so much cleverer than I am," he thought. It was a strange feeling, as he was always a good student in high school. He felt even more puzzled a few days later. He got lost on his way to his favorite cinema. What's worse, he began having trouble finding the right words when speaking. He asked, "What's for dinner, Mom?" after he had just eaten. Poor Andrew, he was only 15! His parents were worried and took Andrew to see a doctor. A brain scan made it clear: Andrew had a malignant brain tumor . It was pressing on the part of the brain that makes new memory. He should be operated on as soon as possible. Andrew was _ ! Doctors removed the tumor, but Andrew's memory was still poor. He was told he would probably never go back to school. Andrew was eager to enter a university, but it seemed that his dream wouldn't come true. "Even though they told me this, I knew I wanted to go back to school," Andrew said. "I wanted to get my memory back." Andrew began by auditing an English class at a nearby school. In class, he took notes carefully and read his notes several times a day, then typed them again and again. He studied twelve hours a day, seven days a week. He worked ten times harder than other students. In 2007, at age 29, he graduated from a local university. Six months later, Andrew found a job.
1. How old was Andrew?
2. Was there something wrong with him?
3. Physical or emotional?
4. What was wrong?
5. How did it affect him?
6. Why not?
7. What was one of his first inclinations that there was a problem?
8. Was he typically a good student?
9. What else did he have difficulties doing?
10. Did he get lost or confused?
11. Did he need surgery to remove the tumore
12. Was his memory immediately better?
13. Did he go right back to school?
14. What was he told about being able to return?
15. How did he feel about that?
16. What did he do to make that a reality?
17. How many days a week?
18. Did he attend a University?
19. Did he graduate?
20. When?
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answer: 1. 15
2. yes
3. physical
4. a malignant brain tumor
5. he couldn't make memories
6. the tumor was pressing on his brain
7. trouble in school
8. yes
9. finding the right wordds
10. yes
11. yes
12. no
13. no
14. he would probably never go back
15. he knew hewanted to go back
16. he studied 12 hours a day
17. seven
18. yes
19. yes
20. 2007


question: It was just three degrees above zero."That's cold", thought Jane as she got ready to deliver her morning papers . Jane had 50 customers ,and on cold mornings when she couldn't ride her bicycle , it took her more than an hour to make her rounds. As she collected her papers and put them into a big canvas bag , Jane regretted that she hadn't finished her maths homework the night before . There was still time . She would hurry with the papers and finish the maths before breakfast. Less than an hour later Jane nearly finished. She had only five customers to go. She could then go home to finish her maths homework while her Mom cooked breakfast . As she rounded the corner , she saw a car in the middle of the street . It was Mr Zimmerman , the elderly man who walked with a walking stick . His car was out of gas . "I'd like to help Mr Zimmerman," thought Jane ,"but if I do , I won't have time to do my homework." She hated to think what Mr Robert would say if she didn't finish papers. "It's his own fault for running out of gas," Jane talked to herself. "The station is only a half mile down the street . Surely Mr Zimmerman can walk that far, even on a cold morning like this...can't he?" As she walked down the street , Jane still wondered what to do.
1. What dilemma does she face?
2. Is it hot outside?
3. How cold is it?
4. How does she earn money?
5. How many does she have to do?
6. Does she use her bike today?
7. How long will her route take?
8. Who does she see?
9. What happened to him?
10. What did she want to do at home?
11. What kind?
12. Was the gas station close?
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answer: 1. Do homework or help the man
2. No
3. three degrees above zero
4. deliver morning papers
5. 50 customers
6. No
7. more than an hour
8. Mr Zimmerman
9. His car was out of gas
10. homework
11. math
12. half mile


question: (CNN) -- Here's what Katie Roche expected when she went into the hospital for spine surgery: two titanium rods, a bone graft, 17 screws in her vertebrae, eight hours in the operating room, and a week's stay in the hospital to recover. 

Here's what she didn't expect on top of all that: sharing a hospital room with a feverish 6-year-old and contracting a nasty bacterial infection her mother says nearly killed her. 

"She got so weak she couldn't even get out of bed to go to the bathroom -- I had to carry her," says her mother, Kathleen Roche. "For about 48 hours, I didn't think we'd have Katie with us much longer." 

Because of the infection she picked up at the hospital, Katie, who was 19 at the time, dropped from 120 to 90 pounds. 

The bacterium that made her so sick is called Clostridium difficile, and according to a study out this week, it's more common than ever among hospitalized children in the United States, and children who get it are more likely to die or require surgery. 

The study found Clostridium difficile infections in hospitalized children went up 15% per year from 1997, when there were 3,565 infections, to 2006, when there were 7,779 infections. 

The study looked at 10.5 million pediatric patients from 1997 to 2006, of whom 21,274, or 0.2%, had C. diff, as the bacteria are commonly called. The study was published this week in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. 

"This is huge, and really concerning," says Dr. Peter Pronovost, director of the Quality and Safety research group at Johns Hopkins University. What's really disturbing, he says, is that these children didn't have to get sick. 
1. Who was undergoing a surgery?
2. What surgery was she going to do?
3. Who did she share her room with?
4. What did she contract from him?
5. How much weight did she lose?
6. Did she become very weak?
7. Did the mother think she wouldn't live longer?
8. What was the bacteria's name?
9. Children who get this are likely to die?
10. Which doctor suggested that this infection is worrisome?
11. From what university?
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answer:
Answer: 1. Katie Roche
2. spine surgery:
3. 6-year-old
4. bacterial infection
5. 30 pounds
6. yes
7. no
8. Clostridium difficile
9. yes
10. Dr. Peter Pronovos
11. Johns Hopkins