WR News Smarts Issue #21
Write in the correct answers for each question. Then write the page you found the answer on and the headline of the story.


1. How many schools does the Recipe for Success Foundation program run in currently?

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2.  What would a 125-pound astronaut weigh on Neptune?

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3. When did Lim Ding Wen first start using a computer?

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4. How much does the world's smallest car weigh?

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5. What is the name of the process that plants use to make sunlight into food?

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6. How many fossils of Titanoboa snakes have scientists found?

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7. Where is the Kennedy Space Center?  

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8. On what continent does Lim Ding Wen live?

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Vocabulary Challenge!
Match each new word below with its definition.

____ 1. random ____ 2. zero gravity ____ 3. obesity ____ 4. incorporate (verb) ____ 5. alter (verb) ____ 6. unearth (verb) ____ 7. emerge (verb) ____ 8. harvest (verb)

A. to include B. to dig up C. weightlessness D. to change E. the condition of being dangerously overweight F. in no particular order G. to collect H. to come out

Get Writing!
Encourage students to write letters to the editors about articles in WR News. Students can e-email their letters to wrnews@weeklyreader.com. We will print selected letters in WR News.

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