question: The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team located on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a members of the National League (NL) Central division; the team plays its home baseball games at Wrigley Field. The Cubs are also one of two active major league teams based in Chicago; the other is the Chicago White Sox, who are a member of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is currently owned by Thomas S. Ricketts, son of TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts. 

The team played its first games in 1876 as a founding member of the National League (NL), eventually becoming known officially as the Chicago Cubs for the 1903 season. Officially, the Cubs are tied for the distinction of being the oldest currently active U.S. professional sports club, along with the Atlanta Braves, which also began play in the NL in 1876 as the Boston Red Stockings (Major League Baseball does not officially recognize the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players as a major league.)
1. When did the Chicago Cubs play their first game?
2. In which league?
3. Were they one of the original members?
4. Which team also began playing in 1876?
5. Were they known as anything else?
6. What?
7. What are they tied with the Cubs for?
8. In what division did the Cubs participate while in the National League?
9. Where are home games played?
10. Where in Chicago are they located?
11. Does Chicago have any other baseball teams?
12. How many?
13. Which team is it?
14. And in which league do they play?
15. And in which division?
16. Who owns the team?
17. What business did his father build?
18. In what year did the team officially become the Chicago Cubs?
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answer: 1. 1876
2. National League (NL)
3. yes
4. the Atlanta Braves
5. yes
6. the Boston Red Stockings
7. being the oldest currently active U.S. professional sports club
8. Central
9. Wrigley Field
10. the North Side
11. yes
12. one other
13. the Chicago White Sox
14. the American League (AL)
15. Central
16. Thomas S. Ricketts
17. TD Ameritrade
18. 1903


question: Many young people want to be pop stars. Pop stars are rich. Many people think they are leading a happy and easy life. Is that true? The answer is definitely no. In fact, they have very hard lives. They spend much of their time on travel. Sometimes the travel is interesting, but in most time it is boring to pop stars. The following chart is a day's life of a pop star. Feb. l0, 2016 5:00 Woke up and had breakfast in the hotel. Took taxi to airport. 7:30 Plane took off half an hour later than usual for the bad weather. 8:30 Plane landed. Waited for luggage for half an hour. Signed for fans at the airport. 9:45 Arrived at the hotel and had a short rest. 10:00 Started out to attend the meeting with fans and gave an interview to the local reporters. 11:00 Went to radio station to attend the live show. 12:00 Had lunch with local producer I3:00 Went to theatre and prepared for the night's show. 17:00 Back to hotel. Tried to have a rest. Still worried about the band. 18:00 Had supper, but ate little. 18:30 Went to theatre again and got ready for show. 19:30 Sang very well, and audience gave a warm welcome. The band improved a little. 22:00 Show was over. Very tired from it. 23:00 Back to hotel. Took a bath. Too excited to sleep, so watched TV. 0:00 Fell asleep, with TV on.
1. Who is rich?
2. How many young people want to be them?
3. are there lives easy?
4. what do they spend a lot of time doing?
5. what day is the itinerary from?
6. what happened at 7:30
7. what time did they arrive at the hotel?
8. who did they have lunch with?
9. Did they take a shower/.
10. Did they eat caviar/.
11. who did they give an interview to?
12. did they sing horribly?
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answer: 1. Pop stars
2. Many
3. no
4. travel
5. Feb. l0, 2016
6. Plane took off
7. 9:45
8. local producer
9. no
10. no
11. local reporters
12. no


question: CHAPTER VI 

Singing of birds at her window awakened Lenore. The dawn streamed in bright and sweetly fragrant. The wheat-fields seemed a rosy gold, and all that open slope called to her thrillingly of the beauty of the world and the happiness of youth. It was not possible to be morbid at dawn. "I hear! I hear!" she whispered. "From a thousand slopes far and wide!" 

At the breakfast-table, when there came opportunity, she looked up serenely and said, "Father, on second thought I will go the Bend, thank you!" 

Anderson laid down his knife and fork and his eyes opened wide in surprise. "Changed your mind!" he exclaimed. 

"That's a privilege I have, you know," she replied, calmly. 

Mrs. Anderson appeared more anxious than surprised. "Daughter, don't go. That will be a fearful ride." 

"Hum! Sure glad to have you, lass," added Anderson, with his keen eyes on her. 

"Let me go, too," begged Rose. 

Kathleen was solemnly gazing at Lenore, with the wise, penetrating eyes of extreme youth. 

"Lenore, I'll bet you've got a new beau up there," she declared. 

Lenore flushed scarlet. She was less angry with her little sister than with the incomprehensible fact of a playful word bringing the blood stingingly to her neck and face. 

"Kitty, you forget your manners," she said, sharply. 

"Kit is fresh. She's an awful child," added Rose, with a superior air. 

"I didn't say a thing," cried Kathleen, hotly. "Lenore, if it isn't true, why'd you blush so red?" 

"Hush, you silly children!" ordered the mother, reprovingly. 
1. What woke Lenore up?
2. Was it a dark morning?
3. Did she live in the mountains?
4. What was her house surrounded by?
5. Is she an older woman?
6. Is she usually in a bad mood in the morning?
7. How many people were at breakfast?
8. Were her brothers there?
9. Was her dad there?
10. What did she inform him that she would do?
11. Had she switched her position on this topic?
12. Was he glad?
13. Was her mom happy about her decision?
14. Why not?
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answer:
1. Singing of birds
2. No
3. No
4. wheat-fields
5. No
6. No
7. unknown
8. No
9. Yes
10. she'd go to the bend
11. Yes
12. No
13. No
14. it would be a fearful ride