Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission is urging would-be voters to turn out for the scheduled voter registration session in January, in hopes for a "free fair and credible elections in 2011," a Commission spokesman said Thursday.

"This reassurance is necessary against the backdrop of the theft of some Direct Data Capture machines at the Lagos airport, " said Kayode Robert Idowu, a Commission spokesman in a press statement.

On Tuesday, 20 voting machines were stolen at the Lagos airport, out of a total of 6,000 brought into the country by Zinox Technologies Ltd., Idowu said. Sixteen machines have been recovered so far and security agents are investigating the case, he said.

The equipment, meant for registering voters for the upcoming election in Nigeria, is comprised of laptops and webcams. It was stolen from a clearing point at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, said Idowu.

The equipment was the first consignment ordered to help register voters for the 2011 elections.

The presidential election is expected to take place in April 9.

President Goodluck Jonathan, who became president after the death of Umaru Yar'Adua earlier this year, is running for election to the office. He will be challenged in the primaries by another former vice president of Nigeria.

Atiku Abubakar is the consensus candidate put forward by a bloc of leaders from Nigeria's influential Northern Political Leaders Forum, which announced in September that it would name someone to take on Jonathan in the presidential primaries for the People's Democratic Party.
1. Who is urging voters?
2. Are they would-be voters?
3. Why they are addressed?
4. When?
5. What was stolen?
6. Where?
7. How many?
8. Out of how many?
9. How many been recovered?
10. Which company imported those machines?
11. Is anyone investigating?
12. Who?
13. Who is the current president?
14. Is he on the ballot?
15. Who will be his contender?
16. What is his name?
17. Who are supporting him?
18. When they announced that?
19. Who was the previous president?
20. What happened to him?

Numbered answers:
1. Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission
2. yes
3. They want a free and credible election
4. 2011
5. voting machines
6. Lagos airport
7. , 20 voting machines
8. 6,000
9. Sixteen machines
10. Zinox Technologies Ltd
11. yes
12. security agents
13. Goodluck Jonathan
14. yes
15. another former vice president of Nigeria.
16. Atiku Abubakar
17. Northern Political Leaders Forum
18. September
19. Umaru Yar'Adua
20. He died

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, it operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters on Jones Branch Drive in McLean, Virginia. It is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. Its dynamic design influenced the style of local, regional and national newspapers worldwide, through its use of concise reports, colorized images, informational graphics, and its inclusion of popular culture stories, among other distinct features.

With a weekly circulation of 1,021,638 and an approximate daily reach of seven million readers , "USA Today" shares the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States with "The Wall Street Journal" and "The New York Times". "USA Today" is distributed in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, with an international edition distributed in Canada, Asia and the Pacific Islands, and Europe.

The development of "USA Today" commenced on February 29, 1980, when company staff employed for a task force known as "Project NN" met with Gannett Company chairman Al Neuharth in Cocoa Beach, Florida to develop a national newspaper. Early, regional prototypes included "East Bay Today", an Oakland, California-based publication first published in the late 1970s to serve as the morning edition of the "Oakland Tribune", an afternoon newspaper which Gannett owned at the time. On June 11, 1981, Gannett printed the first prototypes of the proposed publication; the copies, which displayed two proposed design layouts, were mailed to various newsmakers and prominent leaders in journalism for review and input. The Gannett Company's Board of Directors approved the launch of the national newspaper, which would be titled "USA Today", on December 5, 1981; with the launch, Neuharth was appointed president and publisher of the newspaper, adding those responsibilities to his existing position as Gannett's chief executive officer.
1. How many copies of USA Today go out per week?
2. How many people read it each day?
3. Are any U.S. newspapers as widely read as it?
4. Can you find the paper in Puerto Rico?
5. What about Alaska?
6. What company owns the paper?
7. True or False: It is their most important publication.
8. Where is the paper headquartered?
9. On what street?
10. Is it only printed there?
11. In how many places is it printed?
12. True or False: The paper has had an influential design.
13. What is one component of the paper's design?
14. And another?
15. And one more?
16. Who chairs the Gannett Company?
17. People from what work group met him in Florida?
18. What was the goal of their meeting?
19. Where in Florida did they meet?
20. When was the paper launched?

Numbered answers:
1. 1,021,638
2. 7 million readers
3. No
4. Yes
5. yes
6. The Gannett Company
7. True
8. In McLean, Virginia
9. Jones Branch Drive
10. No
11. 42 places total
12. True
13. informational graphics
14. colorized images
15. popular culture stories
16. Al Neuharth
17. Project NN
18. They wanted to develop a national newspaper
19. Cocoa Beach
20. December 5, 1981

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER VII.

Gie ower your house, lady, he said,-- Gie ower your house to me. Edom of Gordon.

Morton had finished the revisal and the making out of a fair copy of the paper on which he and Poundtext had agreed to rest as a full statement of the grievances of their party, and the conditions on which the greater part of the insurgents would be contented to lay down their arms; and he was about to betake himself to repose, when there was a knocking at the door of his apartment.

"Enter," said Morton; and the round bullethead of Cuddie Headrigg was thrust into the room. "Come in," said Morton, "and tell me what you want. Is there any alarm?"

"Na, stir; but I hae brought ane to speak wi' you."

"Who is that, Cuddie?" enquired Morton.

"Ane o' your auld acquaintance," said Cuddie; and, opening the door more fully, he half led, half dragged in a woman, whose face was muffled in her plaid.--"Come, come, ye needna be sae bashfu' before auld acquaintance, Jenny," said Cuddie, pulling down the veil, and discovering to his master the well-remembered countenance of Jenny Dennison. "Tell his honour, now--there's a braw lass--tell him what ye were wanting to say to Lord Evandale, mistress."

"What was I wanting to say," answered Jenny, "to his honour himsell the other morning, when I visited him in captivity, ye muckle hash?--D'ye think that folk dinna want to see their friends in adversity, ye dour crowdy-eater?"

This reply was made with Jenny's usual volubility; but her voice quivered, her cheek was thin and pale, the tears stood in her eyes, her hand trembled, her manner was fluttered, and her whole presence bore marks of recent suffering and privation, as well as nervous and hysterical agitation.
1. Who rapped on the door?
2. Who was inside?
3. Had he been working on something?
4. Did it involve a document?
5. What did he do with it?
6. Anything else?
7. What did he do with it?
8. Did someone help him draw up the document?
9. Who?
10. What was stated in the paper?
Numbered answers:
1. Cuddie Headrigg
2. Morton
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. revised it
6. Yes
7. made a copy of the paper
8. Yes
9. Poundtext
10. a full statement of the grievances of their party