Question: question: A boy called Mario had many friends, and he was proud of it. Whoever he met, he would like to show off how popular he was at school. One day, his grandpa said to him, "Mario, I know that you don't have as many friends as you think. Many of them are not true to you." Mario thought maybe his grandpa was right. However, he wasn't sure how he could test whether his schoolmates were real friends or not, so he asked his grandpa. The old man answered, "I have just exactly what you need. It's in my room. Wait a minute." The old man left, soon returning as if carrying something in his hand, but Mario could see nothing there. "Take it. It's a very special chair. Because it's _ , it will be hard for you to sit on it. However, if you manage to sit on it, you can use the chair's magic power to tell who your real friends are." Mario took the strange invisible chair to school. At break time he asked everyone to form a circle, and he put himself in the middle, with his chair. "Nobody move. You're about to see something amazing," said Mario. Then he tried sitting on the chair. Having difficulty seeing it, he missed and fell to the ground. Everyone had a pretty good laugh. "Wait, wait," said Mario, making another try. But again he missed the seat. Mario didn't give up. He kept trying to sit on the magic chair. Finally, he did it. This time he felt himself in mid-air. Then he experienced the magic that his grandpa had been talking about. Looking around, Mario saw George, Lucas and Diana holding him up, so he wouldn't fall. But some schoolmates whom he had regarded as friends had done nothing but made fun of him. Mario was quite thankful to his grandpa, who helped him test who his true friends were.
1. What was invisible?
2. What is the boy's name?
3. Where did he take the chair?
4. Did this chair involve his grandma or grandpa?
5. What happened when the boy first tried to sit on the chair?
6. How did people around him react to this?
7. Did he miss the chair a second time?
8. Did the boy take pride in how many friends he had?
9. How many of his friends held him up?
10. What were their names?
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answer: 1. a chair
2. Mario
3. to school
4. his grandpa
5. he missed and fell to the ground
6. Everyone had a pretty good laugh
7. yes
8. yes
9. Three
10. George, Lucas and Diana

Mary David knew she wanted to be a movie star when she was very young. She was not sure what gave her the idea, but she wanted to look like a movie star. "I have a lot of pictures from my childhood of me wearing sunglasses," she says. "I used to wear them to watch TV." Early movie actors started wearing sunglasses, not because they looked good, but because their eyes hurt. The lights used on movie sets were really bright and could cause a painful problem known as "Klieg eyes". It was named after the Klieg brothers who invented the lights. Actors wore sunglasses to give their eyes a rest. But when movie stars began wearing their sunglasses in public, they quickly became a must. From then on, actors started wearing sunglasses in their movies as well as on the street. Audrey Hepburn wore ultra-cool Ray-Ban sunglasses in the 1961 movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's. As a result, Ray-Ban sunglasses started to appear more and more in the movies. In 1979, Ray-Ban "Wayfarers" were worn by Jake and Elwood in The Blue Brothers. Tom Cruise wore Ray-Ban "Aviator" sunglasses in the 1986 hit, Top Gun. Then in 1997, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones made Ray-Ban "Predator" sunglasses famous in Men in Black. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. why did early movie actors wear sunglasses?
2. what did mary david want to be?
3. what did she like to wear when she was young?
4. what was the name of the painful problem that lights can cause?
5. named after who?
6. what year did the movie breakfast at tiffany's come out?
7. who was in it?
8. what brand of glasses did she wear?
9. who wore Wayfarers?
10. in what movie?
11. from what year?
12. Did Tom Cruise also wear Ray-Ban?
13. what style?
14. in what movie?
15. what year did that come out?
16. did Will Smith wear Ray-Ban too?
17. with who?
18. in what movie?
19. in what year?
Answer: 1. their eyes hurt
2. a movie star
3. sunglasses
4. Klieg eyes
5. the Klieg brothers
6. 1961
7. Audrey Hepburn
8. Ray-Ban
9. Jake and Elwood
10. The Blue Brothers
11. 1979
12. yes
13. Aviator
14. Top Gun
15. 1986
16. yes
17. Tommy Lee Jones
18. Men in Black
19. 1997

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Paul the pear lived in a bowl on the table. He was a plastic fruit, and no one could eat him. He sat in the bowl with Artie the apple and Gertie the grapes. He watched every day as the group of bananas that hung out in another basket got eaten one by one. He wished he could be taken along to work in a bag and brought along to eat. But day after day, he sat in the bowl with only his plastic friends. One day, a little boy walked over towards him and picked Paul up. Paul was very excited. The boy looked at the pear with hungry eyes. He put him up to his mouth and took a big bite. "Ewwww!!!" said the little boy, and he spit out the fake fruit all over the floor. He put Paul back in the bowl and ran away. Paul smiled to himself about his adventure. 1. Who was a piece of fruit?
2. What kind of fruit was he?
3. Was he a real piece of fruit?
4. How do you know?
5. Who joined him in the bowl on the table?
6. What was Artie?
7. And Gertie?
8. What did Paul watch everyday?
9. Why?
10. Where were the bananas eaten?
11. What happened one day?
12. Did this make him sad?
13. What did the boy say?
14. Why?
15. Was he spit back in the bowl?
16. Where at then?
17. Did he make it back into the bowl?
18. By who?
19. Did he enjoy the adventure?
20. Who did he smile to?
numbered_answers:
Answer: 1. Paul
2. a pear
3. No
4. He was plastic
5. Artie and Gertie
6. an apple
7. grapes
8. the group of bananas
9. He wished he could be eaten like them
10. at work
11. a little boy picked him up
12. No
13. "Ewwww!!!"
14. because he was fake fruit
15. No
16. all over the floor
17. Yes
18. The boy
19. Yes
20. himself