Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
(CNN) -- Pour yourself a cold martini, make sure it's extra dry, put some classic jazz on the stereo, a mournful saxophone is a must, and settle in with one of the best-reviewed novels of the year, "Rules of Civility." 

Written by first-time novelist Amor Towles, a principal at a Manhattan investment firm, the book has shot up the best-seller charts and is drawing rave reviews from critics. It's a nostalgic love letter to New York of the late '30s, a novel of manners with lofty aspirations that evokes some of the classics of American literature. 

The story unfolds largely in flashback, set on New Year's Eve in Manhattan 1937. The Jazz Age is over, the Depression in its final days, World War II just over the horizon. At its outset, there is a budding love triangle between Katey Kontent, that's "kon-tent, like the state of being"; her boardinghouse roommate, Eve; and a handsome banker, Theodore "Tinker" Grey, but an unexpected accident sends the story in a more serious direction. 

Katey is the narrator and the wry heart of this novel. She's a young woman of "poise and purpose." Brooklyn-born, the daughter of immigrant laborers, she works in a Wall Street secretarial pool though aspires to much more. 

Alongside a supporting cast with WASPy nicknames like Dicky, Bitsy and Peaches, Katey navigates her way through Manhattan jazz clubs and Long Island cocktail parties and into the upper echelons of New York society. 

The novel takes its title from young George Washington's "Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation"; you'll find all 110 of them in the novel's appendix. These rules are described as "a do-it-yourself charm school. A sort of How to Win Friends and Influence People 150 years ahead of its time." 
1. Where does Amor Towles work?
2. Where?
3. Has he written a book?
4. What's the name of it?
5. Is it his first?
6. What is he now considered?
7. Who narrates the story?
8. Is that an old woman?
9. What is she?
10. Where does she work?
11. As what?
12. What were her parents?
13. Were they born in New York?
14. What were they?
15. Where is Kathy born?
16. Where is the book set?
17. When?
18. Is it a holiday?
19. Which one?
20. Is there a love triangle?

Numbered answers:
1. an investment firm
2. Manhattan
3. yes
4. "Rules of Civility"
5. yes
6. a novelist
7. Katey
8. no
9. a young woman
10. Wall Street
11. a secretary
12. laborers
13. no
14. immigrants
15. Brooklyn
16. Manhattan
17. 1937
18. yes
19. New Year's Eve
20. yes


Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Passage 1 

The Information Highway is the road that links computer users to a large number of on-line services: the Web,e-mail,and software,to mention just a few. Not long ago,the Information Highway was a new road,with not many users. Now,everyone seems to want to take a drive, with over 30 million families connected worldwide. Not surprisingly, this well-traveled highway is starting to look like a well-traveled highway. Traffic jams can cause many serious problems,forcing the system to close down for repair. Naturally,accidents will happen on such a crowded road,and usually victims are some files,gone forever. Then,of course,there' s Mr. Cool,with his new broad-band connection,who speeds down the highway faster than most of us can go. But don' t trick yourself:he pays for that speeding. 

Passage 2 

Want to know more about global warming and how you can help prevent it?Doctor Herman Friedman,who is considered a leading expert on the subject,will speak at Grayson Hall next Friday. Friedman studied environmental science at three well-known universities around the world before becoming a professor in the subject. He has also traveled around the world observing environmental concerns. The gradual bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef,which came into the public eye in 2002,is his latest interest. Signed copies of his color1ful book,which was p ublished just last month,will be on sale after his talk.
1. Does the Information Highway connect to a tiny amount of services?
2. How many families are connected to it?
3. Are traffic jams bad?
4. Does Mr. Cool go fast?
5. How is he speeding?
6. Does he get it for free?
7. Has the highway been around since the Stone Age?
8. Who is a knowledgeable person on global warming?
9. Is he speaking soon?
10. Where?
11. How many colleges did he study at?
12. What does he do now?
13. Does he do anything else?
14. What is he talking about?
15. Can people get him to sign the new work?
16. Does it have pictures?
17. When did it come out?


Numbered answers:
1. No, large
2. over 30 million
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. new broad-band connection
6. No
7. No
8. Doctor Herman Friedman
9. Yes
10. Grayson Hall
11. three
12. professor
13. author
14. Great Barrier Reef
15. Yes
16. Yes
17. last month