Question:
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"I believe you're the right person to write an advice column for the students called Dear Amy!" Jenny, editor of the school newspaper, said to Andy, who finally agreed to accept the job if Jenny promised not to tell it to anyone else. At first it wasn't too bad. Most of the letters he received were interesting and quite easy to answer. Then came a letter from a person named Joe. "Dear Amy," it began, "I'm in real trouble. I've wanted to be a songwriter all my life, but my parents don't even let me take music lessons. I have a guitar, but they both get angry if I play. I've tried explaining, but they didn't listen. I feel sad. Should I run away from home? Maybe that will make my parents agree." The letter signed "Joe". Andy thought about this letter for a long time. Should he advise someone to run away from home? Probably not. But didn't Joe have a right to be a songwriter if he wanted to? Andy thought hard, but couldn't think out a good answer. Andy couldn't sleep. He just worried about poor Joe. At a bar a few days later, Eleanor, a girl in Andy's maths class, sat down next to him and asked, " What's wrong with you? You look a little worried." "I guess I do," said Andy. "If you get a problem, why don't you try writing to Dear Amy about it?" asked Eleanor. Andy sighed. But Eleanor continued, "In fact, I guess Dear Amy is rather busy with other problems. She still hasn't answered the _ letter I wrote her last week. You'd better read it -- it may even make the most hard-hearted person cry! It was supposed to be from a songwriter named Joe."
1. Who was asked to write the "Dear Amy" column?
2. Did he take the job?
3. Who said they wouldn't tell?
4. How was it in the beginning?
5. Were the notes mostly boring?
6. Were the replies easy?
7. Who yearned to write songs?
8. Does he have an instrument?
9. Is he happily allowed to play?
10. What was his question?
11. Does he try to talk to them?
12. Does Andy think he should go?
13. Did Andy rest soundly?
14. Why not?
15. Where did he go a few days after?
16. Who was there?
17. He knew her from somewhere?
18. Did they sit together?
19. What did suggest he do?
20. Does she think Amy's busy?

Numbered answers:
1. Andy
2. Yes
3. Jenny
4. Not too bad
5. No
6. Yes
7. Joe
8. Yes
9. no
10. Should I run away from home?
11. Yes
12. No
13. No
14. He was worried about Joe.
15. To a bar
16. Eleanor
17. Yes
18. Yes
19. Write to Dear Amy
20. Yes


Question:
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(CNN) -- UK lawmakers have voted in the House of Commons to recognize Palestine as a state "as a contribution to securing a negotiated two state solution." 

The motion was backed overwhelmingly Monday by 274 votes to 12. However, fewer than half of the 650 MPs in the House of Commons took part in the debate. 

The motion passed was, "That this House believes that the Government should recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel, as a contribution to securing a negotiated two state solution. 

The measure is mainly symbolic and is not binding on the government. However, it lends added weight within Europe to calls for Palestinian statehood. 

Ten days earlier, the new government in Sweden said it would recognize a Palestinian state. 

"A two-state solution requires mutual recognition and a will to coexist peacefully. Therefore, Sweden will recognise the State of Palestine," said Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in his first statement of government policy. 

'Not a gift, but a right' 

The UK vote came after five hours of debate in the House. 

Former Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, of the Conservative Party, told MPs that during his time in office in the 1990s, the United Kingdom committed "for the first time to a two-state solution with a Palestinian state." 

"I have never wavered in that view and I believe that the earlier that state comes about the better, both for the Palestinians and for the Middle East as a whole," he said. 

Shadow foreign minister Ian Lucas, of the opposition Labour Party, said the motion would be supported by his party but that the timing and manner of deciding whether to recognize Palestinian statehood was a matter for the current coalition government. 
1. In what country is this vote happening?

Numbered answers:
1. in the UK


Question:
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The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east. 

At in area (as defined with an Antarctic southern border), this largest division of the World Ocean—and, in turn, the hydrosphere—covers about 46% of Earth's water surface and about one-third of its total surface area, making it larger than all of Earth's land area combined. Both the center of the Water Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere are in the Pacific Ocean. The equator subdivides it into the North Pacific Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, with two exceptions: the Galápagos and Gilbert Islands, while straddling the equator, are deemed wholly within the South Pacific. Its mean depth is . The Mariana Trench in the western North Pacific is the deepest point in the world, reaching a depth of . The western Pacific has many peripheral seas. 

Though the peoples of Asia and Oceania have traveled the Pacific Ocean since prehistoric times, the eastern Pacific was first sighted by Europeans in the early 16th century when Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and discovered the great "southern sea" which he named "Mar del Sur" (in Spanish). The ocean's current name was coined by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the Spanish circumnavigation of the world in 1521, as he encountered favorable winds on reaching the ocean. He called it "Mar Pacífico", which in both Portuguese and Spanish means "peaceful sea".
1. What ocean is this article talking about?
2. What is in the east of the ocean?
3. What about the west?
4. What is the Mariana Trench?
5. The ocean's current name was by which explorer?
6. During what?
7. in what year?
8. what did he call it?
9. what does it mean?
10. Does the western pacific consists of many peripheral seas?


Numbered answers:
1. The Pacific Ocean
2. the Americas
3. Australia
4. the deepest point
5. Ferdinand Magellan
6. during the Spanish circumnavigation of the world
7. 1521
8. Mar Pacífico
9. peaceful sea
10. yes