Problem: Steve Jobs made technology fun.The co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty-six He had fought for years against cancer.Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world.

Tim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said "If you actually look at a tech leader, they're really happy if they have one hit in their life.Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar."

Steve Jobs was a college dropout.He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant.They supported his early interest in electronics.

He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer--now just called Apple--in nineteen seventy-six.They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five.That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute with the chief executive.

Mr.Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer.He rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven after it bought NeXT.He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today.

Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader'' and a "marketing genius ".

President Obama said in a statement: "By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage, _ .By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun."

David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City.He says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business.

"The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce top to bottom and across is really stunning .He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, so one of the great[s] of all time." David Carroll said.

Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's chief executive in August because of his health.He died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement.Apple's new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon.com.It costs less than half as much as an iPad but also does less.
1. When Steve Jobs died?
2. How old was he?
3. What was the cause?
4. Did he ever graduate from college?
5. Was he adopted as a child?
6. By whom?
7. Were they supportive to him?
8. In what interest?
9. After Apple what company he started?
10. Did he rejoin Apple?
11. How was the company's shape then?
12. Did he improve the situation?
13. Going back when he started that company?
14. Who did he start Apple with?
15. How long he stayed there?
16. What his friend did then?
Answer: 1. last Wednesday
2. fifty-six
3. cancer
4. no
5. yes
6. a machinist and his wife, an accountant
7. yes
8. electronics
9. NeXT Computer
10. yes
11. bad shape
12. .He helped remake Apple
13. unknown
14. Steve Wozniak
15. until nineteen eighty-five
16. returned to college

Problem: Thunder can move a seesaw. This is very important to know if you ever see what I saw. One day, I was walking home when I saw a squirrel on a seesaw near my house. It was running up and down, and all around, playing by itself. Suddenly, an ox appeared from nowhere. It came up to the squirrel, walked around the seesaw for a bit, then sat down on one end. As you know, an ox is a very big animal, so the seesaw threw the squirrel off and high into the air! The squirrel flew so high that it passed the buildings. It passed the birds, it passed the planes and stopped in the clouds. When it was there, it made friends with the clouds and asked one of the clouds a secret question. The cloud said okay, and sent the squirrel back to the ground. The squirrel fell and fell for a long time. Finally he landed on the seesaw, but the ox didn't move. "Where were you?" the ox asked, "Just talking with a friend," answered the mouse. I was watching and listening to everything, so I stayed, waiting. Soon enough, a loud CLAP of thunder came from the clouds and threw the ox off of the seesaw and far, far away. So, you see, thunder can move a seesaw.
1. Where were you walking?
2. What animal did you first see?
3. Who was the squirrel playing with?
4. What was he doing?
5. What animal did you see next?
6. What were they on?
7. What happened to the squirrel when he was on the seesaw?
8. Did he go flying into the sky?
9. Where did he stop?
10. Did he talk to them?
11. Did they become buddies?
12. When he returned to the ground, was the ox still there?
13. What caused the ox to go flying off the seesaw?
14. Can thunder do that?
Answer: 1. home
2. squirrel
3. itself
4. running up and down
5. ox
6. seesaw
7. flew off
8. yes
9. in the clouds
10. yes
11. yes
12. yes
13. thunder
14. no

Problem: Max is a very happy cow. He's dark brown, with big blue eyes, and a soft pink nose. He lives in a huge field during the summer, with beautiful, and tasty, buttercups and hay. During the winter he lives in a nice, warm barn.

The hay isn't as tasty then, but it keeps him fed until summer comes back. One winter day Max wanted to see what was happening outside when it turned cold and bright. He had never gone out during the winter because the Farmer always locked the barn door behind him. But today the door was wide open, and Max could see the sunshine reflecting off the bright ground. He had to know why! So Max pushed open the gate to his little house with his nose and walked over to the door. Max was surprised and confused by the ground outside, it was so white and sparkly. His breath started fogging in the air, and the ground was cold and crunchy. "What is this?" He asked the rooster sitting on the fence. The roosters name was Omaha, and he was all white except for a big red puff on his head.

"It's snow, son! Did you grow up in a barn?!" The rooster laughed and flew away towards his little rooster house.

"It's so pretty!" Max said. He pushed it with his nose. "Oh! It's so chilly!" He started to take a bite of the crunchy white bits. He wanted to see if they had a good taste, when he heard the farmer.

"Max! What are you doing out here?" The farmer, named Bob, asked. He was loud, but not mad. "It's much too cold for a small cow like you, we better get you back inside!" He pushed Max inside the barn, and this time locked the barn door tight.
1. What kind of animal is Max?
2. how does he feel?
3. what color is he?
4. what about his eyes?
5. what size?
6. what color was the appendage he smelled with?
7. when does he live in the field?
8. what grows there?
9. where does he live in the winter?
10. what is the temperature like there?
11. why doesn't he go outdoors when it's cold?
12. who locks it?
13. what did he see when he was able to go outdoors in the winter the first time?
14. did he know what it was at first?
15. who did he ask about what it was?
16. where was he at?
17. What was this animal called?
18. What color was the majority of his body?
Answer:
1. a cow
2. very happy
3. dark brown
4. blue
5. big
6. pink
7. summer
8. buttercups
9. a barn
10. warm
11. the barn door is locked
12. the Farmer
13. snow
14. no
15. the rooster
16. sitting on the fence
17. Omaha
18. white