Problem: Once there was a boy named Fritz who loved to draw. He drew everything. In the morning, he drew a picture of his cereal with milk. His papa said, "Don't draw your cereal. Eat it!" After school, Fritz drew a picture of his bicycle. His uncle said, "Don't draw your bicycle. Ride it!" At nighttime, after he finished washing his face, he drew a picture of the toothpaste on the sink. His mama said, "Don't draw the toothpaste. Brush your teeth!"

One day Fritz got a splinter in his foot. It hurt. He wanted to take the splinter out. But first, he drew a picture of his foot with the splinter in it. He said, "Now I can remember what my foot looks like with a splinter in it." Then he took the splinter out all by himself. He told his friend Stephen that he took the splinter out all by himself. Stephen did not believe him. Fritz showed him the picture. Then Stephen believed him.
1. What did Fritz enjoy doing?
2. What did he draw?
3. What did he draw in the morning?
4. Was his father pleased?
5. When did he draw a bicycle?
6. Whose bike was it?
7. Was his uncle pleased?
8. What did he wash at nighttime?
9. Did he draw something afterwards?
10. What?
11. Who was displeased this time?
12. Where did Fritz get a splinter?
13. What did he draw when this happened?
14. Why?
15. Did he go to the doctor?
16. Who removed the splinter?
17. Who did he tell?
18. Did his friend believe him?
19. What changed Stephen's mind?
Answer: 1. drawing
2. everything
3. a picture of his cereal
4. no
5. After school
6. his
7. no
8. his face
9. yes
10. toothpaste
11. His mama
12. his foot
13. a picture of his foot with splinter
14. so he could remember what the foot looked like
15. no
16. he did
17. his friend
18. no
19. the picture

Problem: When the film opens, the Oakland A's have just lost a game to the New York Yankees. And they're about to lose three of their best players to richer teams. Beane is sad, because he doesn't have enough money to compete with the big teams. But then he meets Peter Brand, a young Yale graduate and statistics expert.

Brand introduces Beane to sabermetrics---a controversial system for measuring how good a baseball player is. It applies computer-generated( )statistical analysis to work out a player's ability. It's completely different from the more traditional methods of talent spotting that all the other teams are using. With sabermetrics, Beane begins buying players other teams aren't interested in. And he manages to build a winning team with very little money.

Monayball is based on a true story, but characters have combined, dates have been changed and some events have been invented all for dramatic effect. For example, Peter Brand, Beane's assistant, never existed. However, he is largely based on Beane's former assistant Paul DePodesta. Though there are these changes, critics think that Brad Pitt's portrayal of Beane is _

One journalist wrote, " Pitt imitates Beane's gestures and speech patterns."

Beane's use of sabermetrics changed baseball. Now many teams rely on the method. But this form of complex computer-generated statistical analysis is used in business too. And these days, many businesses use sabermetrics to help plan their business strategies.

But Moneyballisn't just about facts and figures. Billy Beane himself was once a major-league baseball player. At the start of his career people expected big things from him. But he didn't achieve what is expected of him and in 1990 he retired with an average record. This past failure always returns to his mind, and the film is also about whether Beane will finally achieve success in his life.

The critics love Moneyball. One called it " the most soulful of baseball movies", another described it as a " home run". And most agree it's on track for some major awards.
1. What movie is this?
2. Is it based on a true story?
3. How does the movie start?
4. What are they about to lose?
5. To whom?
6. Why is Beane sad?
7. Who does he meet to change that?
8. Who is Peter?
9. Did the critics like this movie?
10. What did Beane use to change baseball?
11. Do other teams use it now?
12. What did Beane do before this?
13. What was expected of him?
14. Did he accomplish that?
15. When did he retire?
16. Did he have a good record?
17. Who plays Beane?
18. Do they think he did a good portrayal?
19. Where the characters and dates accurate to the real story?
20. Why did they change things?
Answer: 1. Monayball
2. Yes
3. the Oakland A's have just lost a game to the New York Yankees
4. three of their best players
5. richer teams
6. because he doesn't have enough money to compete with the big teams
7. Peter Brand
8. a young Yale graduate and statistics expert.
9. Yes
10. sabermetrics
11. Yes
12. a major-league baseball player.
13. eople expected big things from him
14. No
15. 1990
16. No
17. Brad Pitt
18. Yes
19. No
20. dramatic effect.

Problem: SHANGHAI, China (CNN) -- If it weren't for the Internet, Murong Xuecun might still be working as a sales manager at a car company in the southern Chinese city of Chengdu. That is what he was doing when he started writing his first novel on his office's online bulletin board system back in 2001.

The Internet is increasingly being seen in China as a tool for literary empowerment, analysts say.

Week by week when he got home from work, Murong would post new pieces to a story that painted a bleak yet honest picture of modern urban life in the city where he lived. It contained tales about sex, love, gambling and drugs and became so popular that it soon appeared on numerous other online forums.

Today the 35-year-old is considered one of the most famous authors to have emerged in contemporary China. His debut work, "Leave Me Alone: A novel of Chengdu," has been read by millions of Chinese "netizens" -- steady Internet users -- and adapted for film and television and translated into German, French and English.

He also is viewed as a pioneer of what has become nothing short of a literary renaissance online in the country, particularly among young Chinese writers. This is a constituency that has struggled to find a platform for their work in a publishing industry that is viewed as conservative as it often faces state censorship. Instead of remaining silent, a new generation of authors has found its voice on the Web.

"It is a very big revolution," said Yang Hengjun, a political espionage novelist who published his first work online. "When you write something on the Internet that you can't do in reality and you cause a change, that is revolutionary."
1. who is the article mainly about
2. how old is he?
3. was he doing anything before he started writing?
4. what?
5. what saved him?
6. what would he write his story on?
7. when?
8. who is the political espionage mentioned?
9. who said it is a big revolution?
10. what was Murong's first work?
11. is he seen as a pioneer?
12. amongst who?
13. how many chinese have read is first work?
14. what would he do when he got home?
15. what has the internet become for the chinese?
16. for?
17. has his story been televised?
18. what about for movies?
19. how many languages has it been translated to?
20. which ones?
Answer:
1. Murong Xuecun
2. 35
3. yes
4. working as a sales manager
5. the Internet
6. an online bulletin board system
7. 2001
8. unknown
9. Yang Hengjun
10. Leave Me Alone: A novel of Chengdu
11. yes
12. young Chinese writers
13. millions
14. post new pieces
15. a tool
16. literary empowerment
17. yes
18. yes
19. three
20. German, French and English