Question: A widow's wish to hear her late husband's voice again has pushed London's Subway system to restore a 40-year-old recording of the subway's famous " Mind the gap" announcement. 

The underground, or the tube, first opened in 1863, tracked down the voice recording by Oswald Lawrence after his widow, Margaret McCollum, told them what it meant to her. 

McCollum, 65, said she used to frequently visit Embankment tube station or plan her journeys around the stop to listen to Lawrence's voice, even before his death. She was _ in November when she noticed it had been replaced by a different voice. 

"Lawrence was a drama school graduate when he auditioned for a tour company. For six years after his death, I'd stay on the platform--just sit and listen to it again," she added. 

When Margaret approached the tube, she was told it had a new broadcast system and it couldn't use the old recording anymore. 

Nigel Holness, director of London Underground, said its staff has been so moved by McCollum's story that they dug up the recording and gave the widow a copy of the announcement on a CD for her to keep. "Tube staff is also working to restore Lawrence's announcement at the station," he added. "It is celebrating its 150thanniversary this year. The tube's 'Mind the gap' messages, voiced by various actors, have accompanied countless London commuter journeys since the 1960s. Train drivers and staff made the warnings themselves before that." 

"I'm very pleased that people are interested in Oswald's old recording," Margaret said. "He was a great London transport user all his life .He would be amused, touched, and delighted to know he's back where he belonged." 1. WHAT RECORDING WAS WAS RESTORED\
2. WHO WANTED IT RESTORED
3. HER NAME
4. WHERE DID THIS TAKE PLACE
5. WHEN DID IT OPEN
6. HOW OLD IS SHE
7. WHEE DID SHE FREQUENT
8. WHAT WAS HER HUSBANDS NAME
9. WHAT WAS HE
10. WHAT SI HE AUDITION FOR
11. DID SHE LISTEN AFTER HIS PASSING
12. WHAT WAS SHE TOLD
13. WHO FOUND THE RECORDIN
14. WHAT IS HIS TITLE
15. WHO WAS MOVE BY HER TALE
16. WHO ELSE
17. WHAT DID HE GIVE HER
18. WHAT WAS ON IT
19. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE SPEECH
20. WHAT IS BEING CELEBRATED Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. a 40-year-old recording of the subway's famous " Mind the gap" announcement
2. A widow
3. Margaret McCollum
4. London's Subway system
5. 1863
6. 65
7. Embankment tube station
8. Oswald Lawrence
9. a drama school graduate
10. a tour company
11. Yes
12. it couldn't use the old recording anymore
13. Nigel Holness,
14. director of London Underground
15. Nigel Holness
16. its staff
17. a CD
18. a copy of the announcement
19. 'Mind the gap
20. its 150thanniversary this year


Question: The centenary of the birth of William Faulkner, one of the great modern novelists, was celebrated in September 1997. Faulkner wrote about the southern states of the United States of America where he grew up, and where his family had an important part to play in the history of that region. His work became a touchstone for insights into the troubled issues of southern American identity, race relations, and the family interrelationships of the old time southern gentry . 

Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897. Despite his interest in writing, he left Oxford High School, Mississippi, without graduating. After World War I, he entered the University of Mississippi as a special student, a right to study which was granted to retired soldiers, although Faulkner had only finished training with the Air Force in Canada, and not entered combat . 

Faulkner began to write poems, a verse play, short stories and finished his first novel Sartoris in 1928. His fiction was centered for 14 of the 19 novels published during his lifetime in a fictional region called Yoknapatawpha County. The name is said to come from the Indian Chickasaw word meaning split land. 

In December 1950, Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. When he accepted it in Stockholm, his speech emphasized that he wished to continue writing, but in a positive way that affirmed the power of humanity to prevail over adverse circumstances. As he said in his speech, he still felt that, despite the threat of nuclear war then hanging over the world, the central concern of the writer should be "the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself". He wanted the tensions and problems that he had cast the spotlight on in the southern states of America to be resolved by the life-affirming attitudes and action of his characters. Like playwright Tennessee Williams, Faulkner was a major voice who spoke for the troubled heart of the southern states of America. His achievement is all the more remarkable because, as a schoolboy, he was not only a frequent absentee but also reportedly failed to reach pass grades in English class. His collected short stories, novels, poems, and other writings form a legacy( ) of literature which casts profound illumination on the special culture of the South, a culture which developed from a history and social circumstances that were always unique. 

From the focus on a fictional county, and by remaining true to his view of a close-knit but real society that reflected the greater world around him, Faulkner in the end fashioned a legend of the Deep South that is one of the major achievements of the 20th century literature. 1. Who was William Faukner?
2. What did he write about?
3. And what else?
4. What did he do after World War I?
5. Did he write poems
6. when was his first novel published?
7. Was it a fiction?
8. What does Yoknpaptawpha County mean?
9. What happened in December 1950?
10. Where did he accept the award?
11. Has he ever failed in school?
12. What about skipping school?
13. which classes did he fail in? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. one of the great modern novelists
2. the southern states of the United States of America
3. the troubled issues of southern American identity
4. he entered the University of Mississippi
5. yes
6. 1928
7. yes
8. split land
9. he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
10. in Stockholm
11. yes
12. yes
13. English