question: Twenty years ago, Americans were a rare sight in China. But decades later, things have changed greatly. Americans are found in every Chinese province and region and in all walks of life. Much of this change is due to the increasing exchange and improving relationship between the two countries, but what attracts many here is China's rapid development and the huge opportunities that have arisen with that development. 

Erik Nilsson has been working for the English newspaper China Daily as a reporter for five years since his graduation from Central Michigan University. Although his original plan was to become a conflict zone reporter in Latin America, he decided to stay at China Daily 

Robert Brownell, a former IT engineer with Microsoft in Seattle, is now teaching in China and appreciates the different atmosphere in the school. His actions are a lot less restricted here than they would be in the U.S. "For good students, I can give them candy," he explains. "But in American schools, if you give food to students, they have to be sealed and tested. In China I can pat them on the back and raise my voice. But in America, everything is regulated so much, you just can't do anything." 

Kodi Keith Avila, the 30-year- old Hawaiian is running a business English school, New York Minutes, in Beijing. Avila first came to China in 2007 on a scholarship program as a student of University of Hawaii. It was encouragement from his professor that finally convinced him to go to China. "He thought China would overtake other countries in trade, consumption and technology," Avila said."I saw many good opportunities for personal careers or business development in China. So many limousines Audi, Mercedes-Benz, so many businessmen and skyscrapers. One can get a business license in China as long as one has a good business plan"he told China Today. 

"I came to China because I am interested in Chinese medicine. Learning Chinese language will help me learn Chinese medicine," Caponigro told China Today. She is not alone among Americans in becoming more and more fascinated with Chinese culture.
1. Who is Robert Brownell?
2. What does he do now?
3. Where?
4. Does Erik Nilsson work in China?
5. Where does he work?
6. And how about Kodi Avila?
7. Are American people living in China common today?
8. Why is that?
9. And what particularly draws many of them to live there?
10. Has it always been this way?
11. When was it not?
12. What kind of opportunity does Avila see?
13. Are there cultural factors that draw American people there?
14. What is an example?
15. And another example?
16. Where is Avila from?
17. And his age?
18. When did he first come to China?
19. Who influenced his decision?
20. What did he say his reasoning was?
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answer: 1. a former IT engineer
2. teaching
3. in China
4. no
5. England
6. Beijing.
7. yes
8. the increasing exchange and improving relationship
9. rapid development and huge opportunities
10. no
11. Twenty years ago
12. personal careers or business development
13. yes
14. Chinese medicine.
15. different atmosphere in school
16. hawaii
17. 30
18. 2007
19. his professor
20. the China would overtake other countries in trade, consumption and technology


question: LONDON, England (CNN) -- An American professor doing research in London stumbled across a series of previously unknown letters written by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin, a stunning find that sheds new light on early U.S. history. 

The letters cover Benjamin Franklin's success in dealing with a British general. 

The collection of 47 letters are hand-written copies made 250 years ago, when Franklin lived in London. That they were filed under the copyist's name, not Franklin's, may explain why they were overlooked by historians until now, said a curator at the British Library, where the letters are held. 

The find is reported in the April issue of the William & Mary Quarterly, a journal of early American history and culture. 

The letters are important in large part because they offer a "wealth of new details" that affect modern understanding of Franklin, writes Alan Houston, the political science professor who discovered the letters in the spring of 2007. 

They also raise the question of how many other documents remain waiting to be found on Franklin and his life. 

Houston, a professor at the University of California at San Diego, discovered the letters on the last day of his last research trip to London, just before the library's closing time. 

"The first item was a letter from Benjamin Franklin to the secretary of the governor of Maryland, and I looked at it and I started to read, and I thought, 'This doesn't look familiar,'" Houston told CNN. "I've read everything Franklin ever wrote." 
1. Where did he teach?
2. what was taught?
3. When were the letters found?
4. What publication reported the correspondence?
5. Which issue?
6. What type of publication is it?
7. Who was the author of the letters?
8. Was there anything remarkable about them?
9. What was the subject?
10. who was the first letter found addresses to?
11. was the professor familiar with Franklin's writing?
12. Who did he relate that to?
13. Were the found letters actually written by Franklin?
14. How long ago?
15. Where was Ben living at the time?
16. How come the letters were not found sooner?
17. According to whom?
18. Where?
19. Did they reveal anything new?
20. what day were they found?
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answer: 1. University of California at San Diego,
2. U.S. history.
3. spring of 2007.
4. William & Mary Quarterly,
5. April issue
6. a journal of early American history and culture.
7. written by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin
8. They shed new light on early U.S. history.
9. Benjamin Franklin's success in dealing with a British general.
10. The governor of Maryland
11. Yes
12. CNN
13. They were hand written copies
14. 250 years ago,
15. London.
16. They were filed under the copyist's name,
17. A curator
18. British Library
19. Yes
20. The last day of his last research trip to London


question: Do you know the story about Vince? It was a true story. Vince was an English boy and he was eight years old. He didn't like soap or water. Three or four times a day his mother said to him, "Vince, your hands are very dirty again." Go and wash them. " But Vince never washed them well. He only put his hands in the water for a few seconds and then took them out again. Vince's uncle and aunt lived in another city. One day they came to stay with Vince's parents, and they brought their small son, Toby, with them. Toby was seven years old and he didn't like soap or water, either. The boys sat with their parents for a few minutes and then they went outside. When they were playing, Vince looked at Toby's hands and then went back to Toby's parents and said proudly , "Toby's hands are dirtier than mine, " "Of course they are,"Toby said angrily. "You are one year older than I am, "
1. who was an english boy
2. what did vince wash
3. How old was Toby
4. where did the aunt and uncle live
5. where did the boys sit
6. whose hands were dirtier
7. which boy was older
8. who was 8
9. who didn't like soap or water
10. who said you are one year older than I am
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answer:
1. Vince was.
2. His hands.
3. Seven.
4. another city.
5. with their parents.
6. Toby's.
7. Vince.
8. Vince was.
9. either boy.
10. Toby.