Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
After the first World War, a small group of veterans returned to their village in Britain. Most of them managed to get along fairly well, but one--Francis Blustering, who had been wounded and who never recovered his strength-- was unable to work like others. In time he became very poor. Yet he was too proud to accept anything from the people in the village. 

Once, these veterans held a reunion dinner in the home of Jules Grandin, who had made a good deal of money. Grandin produced a curiosity --a large old gold coin. Each man examined it with interest as it passed around the long table. All, however, had drunk wine freely and the room was full of noisy talk, so that the gold piece was soon forgotten. Later, when Grandin remembered it and asked for it, the coin was missing. 

One of them suggested everyone be searched, to which all agreed, except Blustering. "You refuse, then?" asked Grandin. Blustering said with a red face, "Yes, I cannot allow it." 

One by one, the others turned out their pockets. When the coin failed to appear, attention was focused on poor Blustering. Under the pitying stares of his friends, he walked out and returned to his home. 

A few years later, Grandin made his house repaired. A workman found the gold coin, buried in dirt between planks of the floor. Hurrying to Blustering's home, Grandin apologized to him. 

"But why didn't you allow yourself be searched?" 

"Because I was a thief," Blustering said brokenly. "For weeks we had not had enough to eat and my pockets were full of food that I had taken from the table to carry home to my wife and hungry children."
1. When does this story take place?
2. Who returned to their village?
3. Did all of them do well?
4. Who didn't?
5. Why?
6. Did he have a job?
7. Who held a dinner?
8. What was the reason for the dinner?
9. What did Grandin show the men?
10. Did Grandin forget about the coin?
11. What did one of the men say they should do?
12. Did everyone say okay?

Numbered answers:
1. Britain
2. small group of veterans
3. No
4. Francis Blustering
5. wounded and never recovered his strength
6. No
7. veterans
8. renunion dinner
9. a large old gold coin
10. Yes
11. One of them suggested everyone be searched.
12. No


Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions (Google Traffic), and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle (in beta), or public transportation. 

Google Maps began as a C++ desktop program designed by Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen at Where 2 Technologies. In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google, which converted it into a web application. After additional acquisitions of a geospatial data visualization company and a realtime traffic analyzer, Google Maps was launched in February 2005. The service's front end utilizes JavaScript, XML, and Ajax. Google Maps offers an API that allows maps to be embedded on third-party websites, and offers a locator for urban businesses and other organizations in numerous countries around the world. Google Map Maker allowed users to collaboratively expand and update the service's mapping worldwide but was discontinued from March, 2017. However crowdsourced contributions to Google Maps are not ending as the company announced those features will be transferred to Google's Local Guides programme. 

Google Maps' satellite view is a "top-down" or "birds eye" view; most of the high-resolution imagery of cities is aerial photography taken from aircraft flying at , while most other imagery is from satellites. Much of the available satellite imagery is no more than three years old and is updated on a regular basis. Google Maps uses a close variant of the Mercator projection, and therefore cannot accurately show areas around the poles.
1. What is Google Maps?
2. When was it acquired?
3. From whom?
4. Who designed it?
5. What did it start as?
6. When did Google launch it?
7. As what kind of app?
8. What was canceled in 2017?
9. Where will it be transferred to?
10. Where do they get most of their images from?
11. Where is the other from?
12. What kind of view do they use?
13. How old is the images?
14. Are they updated regularly?
15. What projection do they use?
16. what programming language do they use?
17. Can you get routes for a bike?
18. Where is it not good for?
19. Does it let you know about wrecks?
20. How about trains?

Numbered answers:
1. a web mapping service
2. October 2004
3. Where 2 Technologies
4. Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen
5. a C++ desktop program
6. February 2005
7. a web application
8. Google Map Maker
9. Local Guides
10. satellites
11. aircraft
12. aerial
13. no more than three years
14. yes
15. a close variant of the Mercator projection
16. JavaScript, XML, and Ajax
17. yes
18. areas around the poles
19. yes
20. yes


Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
New Guinea (; ; ; or, historically, "") is a large island in Oceania. It is the world's second-largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of , and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania (if excluding Australia as an island). 

The island is divided between two countries: Papua New Guinea to the east, and Indonesia to the west. 

The island has been known by various names: 

The name "Papua" was used to refer to parts of the island before contact with the West. Its etymology is unclear; one theory states that it is from Tidore, the language used by the Sultanate of Tidore, which controlled parts of the island's coastal region. The name came from "papo" (to unite) and "ua" (negation), which means "not united" or, "territory that geographically is far away (and thus not united)". 

Ploeg reports that the word "papua" is often said to derive from the Malay word "papua" or "pua-pua", meaning "frizzly-haired", referring to the highly curly hair of the inhabitants of these areas. Another possibility, put forward by Sollewijn Gelpke in 1993, is that it comes from the Biak phrase "sup i papwa" which means 'the land below [the sunset]' and refers to the islands west of the Bird's Head, as far as Halmahera. Whatever its origin, the name "Papua" came to be associated with this area, and more especially with Halmahera, which was known to the Portuguese by this name during the era of their colonization in this part of the world.
1. What is this story about?
2. What is that?
3. Where?
4. What country is it in?
5. Is New Guinea the only name?
6. What is one?
7. What language is that?
8. What  words is it derived from?
9. What does papo mean?
10. What does ua mean?
11. What does the word mean when you put the two together?
12. Why is it called that?
13. In 1993 who speculated on a different translation?
14. What did he come up with?
15. What phrase?
16. What does that mean?
17. What does it refer to?
18. As far as where?
19. Who associated it with Halmahera?
20. When


Numbered answers:
1. New Guinea
2. an island
3. in Oceania
4. Papua New Guinea and Indonesia
5. no
6. "Papua
7. Tidore
8. "papo" and "ua"
9. to unite
10. negation
11. not united
12. it is territory that geographically is far away
13. Sollewijn Gelpke
14. The idea that the name comes from a Biak phrase
15. sup i papwa
16. the land below
17. the islands west of the Bird's Head
18. Halmahera
19. the Portuguese
20. during the era of their colonization