Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
(Entertainment Weekly) -- In the movies, "the suburbs" are never just a place. They're a state of mind, a mythology we all know in our bones. 

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio share a happy moment in "Revolutionary Road." 

The myth goes something like this: The suburbs are comfortable, maybe even beautiful, but their serenity is rooted in a friendly American conformity, so that the people who live there have to repress their true selves, which will emerge when they drink too much and have affairs, or rage at each other for their dishonesty, which was all caused in the first place by ... the suburbs. 

The best thing about "Revolutionary Road," a cool-blooded and disquieting adaptation of Richard Yates' 1961 novel about a powerfully unhappy Connecticut couple, is that it doesn't end with that rote vision of bourgeois anomie. It only begins there. 

Frank and April Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) are about 30, with two kids, and both believe they can evade the traps of the existence they've chosen. The year is 1955, and Frank has a New York job that bores him, marketing business machines. He takes solace in feeling superior to his work, and also in his midday martinis and occasional dip into the secretarial pool. April, meanwhile, wanted to be an actress, and still feels she's meant for higher things. Watch DiCaprio and Winslet talk about their reunion » 

Moved to reach for something more, April comes up with a plan: She and Frank will sell their home and move to Paris, where she'll work as a government secretary and he will ... find himself. (It's like a '60s fantasy a decade ahead of time.) "Revolutionary Road" was directed by Sam Mendes, who made the glibly scathing "American Beauty," only here he wants us to share not just Frank and April's misery but the frail reveries that hold them together. 
1. What movie is the article about?
2. Who is the director?
3. Is this his first directing job?
4. What else has he done?
5. Is the movie an original screenplay?
6. Was it a book?
7. Who wrote the novel?
8. What year?
9. What is it about?
10. Who stars in the movie?
11. Why are they unhappy?
12. What do they do?
13. What characters do DiCaprio and Winslet play?
14. Do they have kids?
15. How many?
16. Does Frank Wheeler work?
17. What does he do?
18. What does April Wheeler do?
19. What do they decide to do?
20. What will that do?

Numbered answers:
1. Revolutionary Road
2. Sam Mendes
3. No
4. American Beauty
5. No
6. Yes
7. Richard Yates
8. 1961
9. a powerfully unhappy Connecticut couple
10. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio
11. people who live in the suburbs have to repress their true selves
12. drink too much and have affairs
13. Frank and April Wheeler
14. Yes
15. two
16. Yes
17. marketing business machines
18. wanted to be an actress
19. She and Frank will sell their home and move to Paris
20. she'll work as a government secretary and he will ... find himself.


Question:
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Rudy Saldia is a 25-year-old postman from America. Every day he rides to deliver parcels across his hometown of Philadelphia with his six-month-old cat called MJ always sitting on his shoulders. MJ, short for Mary Jane, is different from other cats. She was born in a drawer in Rudy's bedroom on April Fool's day. When she got older, Rudi noticed that her favorite place to rest was his shoulders, so he decided to train her to work with him. "The first day we crossed one block. The next day we tried two blocks and now we can ride about 25 miles every day. MJ enjoys moving around on my shoulders," Rudi said. However, Rudy hopes to be able to ride 100 miles with MJ in the coming day. "People are always surprised and excited to watch us. I often hear someone shout, 'Oh, my God, he has a cat on his shoulder! How lovely that is!' MJ is so comfortable on my shoulder and she never hurts me with her claws. We always get on well with each other and have a great time during the work." Rudy smiled. MJ loves noisy streets of Philadelphia, the only problem is that she is scared of the siren . However, her owner Rudi is always there for her. One day, if you go to Philadelphia and see a postman with a cat on his shoulder, don't be surprised!
1. What does the person do?
2. How old is he?
3. Where are they from?
4. What does he transport?
5. Where?
6. Does he go alone?
7. Who goes with him?
8. What is it's name?
9. Is it short for anything?
10. What is she like?
11. Why is that?
12. How did that happen?
13. Does she walk with him?
14. How does she travel with him?
15. How far do they go?
16. Do they do this every day?
17. Do people enjoy seeing this?
18. What does she think of it?
19. What about him?
20. Is she afraid of anything?
21. What of?

Numbered answers:
1. They're a postman
2. 25
3. America
4. Parcels
5. Philadelphia
6. No
7. his cat
8. MJ
9. Mary Jane
10. Different from other cats
11. She works with him
12. He trained her
13. No
14. On his shoulders
15. about 25 miles
16. Yes
17. Yes
18. MJ is comfortable
19. He has great time
20. Yes
21. The siren.


Question:
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CHAPTER XXVII 

THE SILVER CLASP 

It was about eleven o'clock on a hot morning and Kenwardine, who had adopted native customs, was leisurely getting his breakfast in the patio. Two or three letters lay among the fruit and wine, but he did not mean to open them yet. He was something of a sybarite and the letters might blunt his enjoyment of the well-served meal. Clare, who had not eaten much, sat opposite, watching him. His pose as he leaned back with a wineglass in his hand was negligently graceful, and his white clothes, drawn in at the waist by a black silk sash, showed his well-knit figure. There were touches of gray in his hair and wrinkles round his eyes, but in spite of this he had a look of careless youth. Clare, however, thought she noticed a hint of preoccupation that she knew and disliked. 

Presently Kenwardine picked out an envelope with a British stamp from among the rest and turned it over before inserting a knife behind the flap, which yielded easily, as if the gum had lost its strength. Then he took out the letter and smiled with ironical amusement. If it had been read by any unauthorized person before it reached him, the reader would have been much misled, but it told him what he wanted to know. There was one word an Englishman or American would not have used, though a Teuton might have done so, but Kenwardine thought a Spaniard would not notice this, even if he knew English well. The other letters were not important, and he glanced at his daughter. 
1. What time was it in the morning?
2. Who had adopted the native customs?
3. Where was he getting his breakfast?
4. Who was sitting and watching him?
5. What color clothes was he wearing?
6. and what fabric was the sash?
7. What look did he have?
8. Did he have wrinkles?
9. and what about a few gray hair?
10. Did the envelope have an American stamp?


Numbered answers:
1. eleven o'clock
2. Kenwardine
3. the patio
4. Clare
5. white
6. silk
7. of careless youth
8. yes
9. yes
10. no