Article Comprehension 1.61 skydivers came to Perris, California on October 17th because they wanted the skydiving record for the most wingsuit divers in formation while in freefall, set by 42 jumpers in June. 2.The dive was performed by daredevils leaped off three aircrafts then creating a diamond formation. It was important to scatter away after the formation because it could lead to injuries when close to the ground. 3.The other record that was recently broken at the same place was 202 Skydive Perris members who made the leap at the same location on September 29th. Critical Thinking Challenge If I was one of the skydivers who came Perris, California to break the record my biggest concern will be death because if I don't have aparachute i will die.

Critical Thinking Challenge If one of my neighbors set up an overwhelming Christmas display that attracted hundreds of people every night I would react surprised and happy for them because i'm there neighbor.

Article Comprehension 1. What made Manuel sad and aggressive is that she lost her mate. 2. The zoo do to try Manuel to be happy by putting animals in her cage to try ease her emotional pain. It didn't work but it work when the zookeepers paired her with the zoo's three resident donkeys. 3.The other animal that had a similar issue was Shamba a rare white lion. It was resolved by bringing a puppy in Shamba's cage and the two of them are now inseparable. Critical Thinking Challenge I believe that Shamba and the puppy may not be friends for life because when the puppy is a big dog the dog would forget what happen when he was a puppy.

Article Comprehension 1. What is special abot Thor's hammer is that only Thor can pick it up because he is worthy and it can only be lifted by someone 'worthy'. 2.Alan Pan built a real-life Thor hammer by using a electromagnetic magnet obtained from a microwave inside a hammer shell. 3. He is the only one able to lift the hammer because the hammer handle was fitted with a capacitive touch sensor and a fingerprint identification sensor.

Article Comprehension 1. Action Productions are trying to detemine with their experiment was that how do Londoners react when they see a stranger in distress? 2.The three scenarios were a eldery woman with a cane and a heavy luggage, a tired subway passenger who wanted to get a certain station by writing a certain station on a piece of paper to wake him up when he gets their, and the last one was a woman struggling with her groceries and a careless man bumped on her and the groceries fell. The result of each one was that one person help the person who needs help with something. 3.They were plesanty suprised with the outcome because when the person was having trouble with a problem a person helped that person Critical Thinking Challenge When I was going to Kroc in Suisun City I hold the door for a person and it felt really good because I helped someone with kindness.

Article Comprehension 1. What was special about the apple tree in Ukraine is that it was a 220 year old apple tree that it has 18 trunks and it has gooseberry shrubs that had never been seen before. 2.The scientists were surprised by the tree's behavior because they can't create again the tree and maybe their was a secret that lies in the tree. 3.The legends that were attached to the tree was their was a prince that planted the tree. After his death it grew and grew. The prince gravestone lies close to the original tree. Critical Thinking Challenge The three legends that I believed that best explains the tree's unsual behavior when the prince planted the tree, after that the people think it was cursed, and the prince lies close to the tree. I think all of the three lengends best explains that the tree has a unsual behavior because all together that equals to a unquie apple tree.

Article Comprehension 1. The International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque has been on going for 44 years. 2. The city is ideal for this event because the wind pattern which is called as "the box" which makes it easier to navigate the giant hot air balloons. The event organizers cancel this year's event the premiere gas giant balloon race because it was due to the high cyclonic winds. 3. The balloons that were participating in the event were more than 500 giant colorful balloons. There were from dozens of states and almost 20 different nations. Critical Thinking Challenge It would be dangerous to race balloons in extremely windy conditions because it's hard to control the balloons and wind will blow them high in the atmosphere and they would explode and the it would drag the balloons in the ground and make a fire.

Article Comprehension 1. Michelle Obama and Peng Liyuan did on September 25th was announced that their was a two new panda babies born in the Simsothan Zoo in Washington D.C. . Bei Bei means precious treasure in Mandarin Chinese. 2. Bei Bei was born on Saturday, August 22nd. Bei Bei twin was left incubator tryig to raise by himsellf. 3. When Bei Bei is four Bei Bei would go to a special giant panda breeding program in Wolong Nature Reserve in China's Sichuan Province and will go by himself and will help him create offspring by sending him onto the wild. Their about are only 1,600 in the wild and 376 in cages. Critical Thinking Challenge It is important to send back giant pandas back to the natural habitat in China because their are only a few thousand left and they need to stay safe.