Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

The revolution was over by the time Tom Ford started working in the fashion world. The expensive fashion design houses such as Channel, Yves Saint Laurent, and Christian Dior, which earned money by designing and making very expensive custom clothes, had lost many of their wealthy customers. To stay in business, they started selling more reasonably priced ready-to-wear clothing along with a wide range of accessories , that is, related products such as shoes, bags, watches. All of these products needed to blend with the clothing and with each other so that they made up a brand that everyone would recognize and wanted to buy. Though they did not use that name, each company needed a "master designer."

Born in Texas and growing up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ford had a diverse background in the arts. Soon after completing high school, he moved to New York, where he studied art history, trained as an actor, and worked as a model. Following that, Ford completed a program in indoor design, but later decided that he was more interested in designing clothes than in decorating house. He was hired by the firm Cathy Hardwick in 1986, where he began to work as a fashion designer. His talent stood out from the rest and soon he moved to Perry Ellis, where he became design director. Then in 1990 he made an important move by taking a position with the New York branch of Gucci, the famous design house based in Milan, Italy.

During his first years at Gucci, the company was going through a very difficult period. Its products were once considered highly desirable, and were worn by famous women such as Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, and Jacqueline Kennedy. However, by the early 1990s they had lost their reputation for quality. Other producers had started making cheap, widely available imitations of the brand, and the sales of Gucci's own products had dropped. Things were so bad at one point that Ford was almost fired. However, some people at the company believed in his talent, and in 1994 they hired him to work in Milan as the creative director for the entire company. In this position Ford had artistic control over all of the company's products, as well as its advertising and the design of its stores. Under Ford's direction, Gucci's reputation for cutting-edge style soon returned, and the company began to recover. The style shows starting in 1994 were wildly successful. People loved the low-cut velvet pants, unbuttoned silk shirts, and shiny boots in metallic color1s. By 1999 Gucci, which had almost gone out of business, was worth over $4 billion.

When Gucci bought Yves Saint Laurent , Ford became creative director for that fashion house while continuing to design for Gucci. When asked how he would be able to keep the two styles apart, Ford said it wasn't a problem and offered a comparison. Yves Saint Laurent was like Catherine Deneuve, he said while Gucci was more like Sophia Loren. Both are sexy and beautiful women, but with very different styles.

Ford left Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent in 2004 to form his own company called simply "Tom Ford". Not long after, he was working together with cosmetics producer Estee Lauder to bring out new beauty products, and then developed and sold a perfume under his own name. His plans for the future? Ford says that someday he'd definitely like to make a film. He puts it his way: "That is the main design project. You don't just get to design what people wear, but you design the whole world and whether characters get to live or die. There is what fashion lacks.

1. What designer came into fashion after the revolution?
2. What did the revolution cause other design houses to do?
3. Why?
4. Where was Tom Ford born?
5. Raised?
6. What city did he relocate to after graduating?
7. What did he study?
8. What did he train for?
9. What did he work as?
10. What did he originally want to design?
11. What was his first job in clothing design?
12. Where?
13. And then?
14. With who?
15. What huge change did he make?
16. With who?
17. When did he start his own company?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Tom Ford
2. start selling more reasonably priced clothes
3. To stay in business
4. Texas
5. Santa Fe, New Mexico
6. New York
7. art history
8. to be an actor
9. a model
10. indoors of houses
11. a fashion designer
12. Cathy Hardwick i
13. he became design director.
14. Perry Ellis
15. took a job in Italy
16. Gucci
17. 2004

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

(CNN) -- Is it just harmless fun, or is something seriously wrong developing in sporting relations between Spain and France?

Yannick Noah, the last French tennis player to win the French Open back in 1983, started it last year when he claimed that Spain's recent sporting success could only be due to doping.

His remarks were quickly shot down by Rafael Nadal, the Spaniard who has won the Paris grand slam six times -- a record he shares with Bjorn Borg, and may hold alone this year.

Now Nadal is at the center of another row, sparked by a comedy program on French channel Canal Plus that spoofed the 25-year-old and cycling champion Alberto Contador, who was this week stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title and banned after a long-running doping saga.

The Spanish government is so upset it has told its ambassador to France to send a written protest to French media, including the offending channel.

And the Spanish Tennis Federation has responded by threatening a lawsuit.

"The RFET will sue Canal Plus Francia for broadcasting a video which, besides inadmissible and slanderous insinuations, uses the federation's logo. The RFET will also get support from other Spanish sports federation mentioned in that video, so that there is a common judicial action," it said in a statement.

The French show, called "Les Guignols" (the Puppets), features lifelike representations of Nadal, Contador and Spain's World Cup-winning football captain Iker Casillas among others.

They are shown writing in books with syringes, and in one scene the muscular Nadal puppet fills up its car's petrol tank from its own bladder.

1. Who is threatening to sue someone?
2. Who might they sue?
3. For what?
4. What is the show on the video?
5. When was the last time a French player won the French Open?
6. Who was it?
7. What did he say Spain was doing to help them win?
8. When did he say this?
9. Where is Rafael Nadal from?
10. Has he won anything?
11. What?
12. Just once?
13. Is he the only one with that record?
14. Who else has it?
15. What is he filling his gas tank from in Les Guignois?
16. What is he using to write with in the video?
17. Who is Alberto Contador?
18. What was taken from him?
19. Why?
20. Is there a puppet of him in the video?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. the Spanish Tennis Federation
2. Canal Plus Francia
3. For broadcasting a video using their logo
4. "Les Guignols"
5. 1983
6. Yannick Noah
7. Doping
8. last year
9. Spain
10. Yes
11. The Paris grand slam
12. 6 times
13. no
14. Bjorn Borg
15. Its own bladder
16. syringes
17. cycling champion
18. 2010 Tour de France title
19. doping
20. Yes