question: Amy Pankratz spent a few nights in the hospital with her daughter, Isabella, who caught a bad flu. "Lying in bed beside Isabella, I could hear the cries of children in pain, "says Amy. "It completely broke my heart." 

When Isabella was getting well and could leave her room, she wore her prized possession--a "superhero cape " Amy had sewn to encourage her--and walked into the hallway. The pink cape was an instant hit with the other young patients, who were doing exercise around the nursing station. "Then, all the kidswere taking turns wearing the cape, giggling, "Amy says. "These were some of the same children I had heard crying the night before, and here they were playing and having fun--kids just being kids!" 

From that moment on, Amy began making Comfort Capes for little ones battling with serious illnesses. "I felt God presenting an opportunity, "she says. "I hoped Comfort Capes can help these kids feel brave, to lift some of the fear away. " 

Since then, Amy has made and donated more than 5, 000 capes in the United States. Amy usually pays for materials herself, although she accepts donations. 

The capes she makes for kids in treatment are different from those her own children have. Before Amy starts to sew she learns what image or character the little boy or girl connects with. "I choose the pattern, color and theme specially for each child," explains Amy. 

When she is not sewing, Amy is raising awareness of childhood cancers and looking into ways to get Comfort Capes to more kids who need them, "If a cape can help a child, even only for a moment, forget his illness, it's worth the time spent sewing," she says.
1. What broke Amy's heart?
2. where?
3. Where were the kids?
4. What did she do about it?
5. What did she start to do to help?
6. What did she do with the capes?
7. Who did she make the first cape for?
8. Who was that?
9. Why did she sew it for her?
10. Why was Isabella in the hospital?
11. What did she hope comfort capes would do?
12. Are all the capes the same?
13. What does she do for each cape and child?
14. Do they pay for them themselves?
15. who does?
16. Does Amy pay also?
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answer: 1. cries of children in pain,
2. Lying in bed
3. in the hospital
4. spent a few nights
5. pink cape
6. began making Comfort Capes
7. Isabella
8. her daughter
9. to encourage her
10. bad flu
11. help these kids feel brave
12. no
13. choose the pattern, color and theme specially for each child,
14. no
15. donated
16. yes


question: Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively "") is often said to mean "people of the (south) wind" although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. 

Kansas was first settled by European Americans in 1812, in what is now Bonner Springs, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists prevailed, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland.
1. What is Kansas?
2. Where?
3. Is it in the South?
4. Where then?
5. Where did the name come from?
6. When was it first settled by anyone other than Native Americans?
7. What happened in 1812?
8. In what city?
9. What was it known as during the settlement time?
10. Why?
11. Who was fighting?
12. Who won?
13. When did they become a state?
14. Did all of the tribes live the same way?
15. How were they divided?
16. How did the Eastern part live?
17. And the west?
18. Did they hunt anything?
19. What?
20. What was the KansaNebraska Act?
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answer: 1. a state
2. in the United States
3. no
4. in the Midwest
5. the Kansa
6. no
7. it was settled by European Americans
8. Bonner Springs
9. Bleeding Kansas
10. the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos
11. abolitionist Free-Staters and pro-slavery settlers
12. The abolitionists
13. January 29, 1861
14. no
15. into eastern and western parts of the state
16. in villages along the river valleys.
17. they were semi-nomadic
18. yes
19. bison.
20. it opened to Kansas to settlement


question: The child of today owes much of its pleasant school life to the work of Maria Montessori and others who felt as she did. 

Maria Montessori was born in 1870 in northern prefix = st1 /Italy. Both her parents were well educated. 

While Maria was a student, she took great interest in the study of the particular nature of the child's mind. It came to her that small children should have freedom to learn. 

Maria became a doctor and a professor at RomeUniversity. In 1907, after working with backward students, she was given a chance to try out her ideas on children. There were sixty children, aged three to six, in the Children's House. The rooms were bright and color1ful. Maria let the children make their own choice of what they wanted to do and work with their own speed. They became busy, peaceful and happy. 

Maria Montessori was one of the world's great teachers. She traveled in Europe, Americaand Far East. She thought that true education, providing for the real needs of the child, would produce wise and happy grown-ups and therefore a peaceful world. Her original way of education has changed our whole idea of what childhood is. 

Maria Montessori died in Hollandat the age of eighty-two.
1. When was Montessori born?
2. Where?
3. Were her parents educated?
4. What did she take interest in as a student?
5. What profession did she have?
6. Where?
7. How many children did she work with in 1907?
8. How old?
9. Did she give them time limits for learning?
10. Where did she travel to?
11. How old was she when she died?
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answer:
1. 1870
2. Italy
3. yes
4. the child's mind
5. doctor and a professor
6. RomeUniversity
7. sixty
8. three to six
9. no
10. Europe, America and Far East
11. 82