1. Question: By Thursday evening, the Haitian president, René Préval, said that 7,000 people had already been buried in a mass grave following Tuesday's earthquake. Hundreds of corpses piled up outside the city’s morgue, next to a hospital struggling to prevent those numbers from rising. The Red Cross says that the death toll could reach ______.
Answer:50,000
2. Question:______, the Philadelphia soul singer whose husky, potent baritone was one definition of R&B seduction in the 1970s but whose career was transformed in 1982 when he was severely paralyzed in an auto accident, died on Wednesday night in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was 59.
Answer: Teddy Pendergrass
3. Question: The White House, Congressional leaders and labor unions said Thursday that they had reached agreement on a proposal ______, resolving one of the major differences between the House and the Senate over far-reaching health legislation.
Answer: to tax high-cost health insurance policies
4.Question: Education Secretary ______ entered some of the most contentious debates in college sports on Thursday when, in a speech at the N.C.A.A. convention, he called for stricter consequences for college teams that do not graduate their athletes and said the National Basketball Association’s age-minimum policy sets up young athletes for failure.
Answer:Arne Duncan
5.Question: In ______, 89,000 residents and businesses are sitting on some $50 million in uncashed i.o.u.’s from the state.
Answer: California
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