Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Rocky's been a fictional hero for decades, but in Edmonton, Alberta, today there's a hero named Rocky who is definitely real -- only he's 8 years old and has four legs.

This Rocky, a Labrador retriever-husky mix, is being hailed for pulling a 9-year-old girl from an icy river on Easter Sunday. His owner, Adam Shaw, 27, is getting similar praise.

"If that man and dog weren't there -- I just try not to think of it," Miranda Wagner, the mother of Samara, 9, and her 10-year-old sister, Krymzen, said in an interview with CNN affiliate CTV.

"I just want to give him a big hug and tell him he's my hero. If he wasn't there I wouldn't have my girls," Wagner said. "Doctors said two more minutes and Samara would have been gone."

Rocky and Shaw's heroics played out on the icy North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton on Sunday afternoon. The girls were tobogganing in a riverside park when they ended up on ice extending from the riverbank, their father, Corey Sunshine, told CNN affiliate CBC.

"From what I was told was, one of the toboggans came off the snowbank and onto the ice and they were trying to come back and the ice broke," he said.

Shaw said he was walking on a bridge over the river when he heard screams. Looking down on the river he saw one girl in the icy water and her sister trying to pull her out.

By the time he and Rocky sprinted down to the river, both girls were in the water.
1. In what city does the story take place?
2. Is the Rocky in the story a person?
3. What is he?
4. On what body of water did Rocky's heroics take place?
5. Was it summertime?
6. What did dog do?
7. When?
8. How old was the girl?
9. What was her name?
10. Does she have siblings?
11. Was Samara at big risk?
12. How long could she have survived longer?
13. According to whom?
14. Where was Samara doing before falling in the river?
15. Where?
16. Was she alone?
17. Was the dog alone?
18. What's his owner's name?
19. How old is he?

Numbered answers:
1. in Edmonton, Alberta
2. no
3. a Labrador retriever-husky mix
4. North Saskatchewan River
5. No
6. He pulled a girl out of the river
7. on Easter Sunday
8. Nine
9. Samara
10. Yes
11. Yes
12. Less than two minutes
13. Doctors
14. Tobogganing
15. in a riverside park
16. No
17. No
18. Adam Shaw
19. 27

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
The nickelodeon was the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures. Usually set up in converted storefronts, these small, simple theaters charged five cents for admission and flourished from about 1905 to 1915.

"Nickelodeon" was concocted from "nickel", the name of the U.S. five-cent coin, and the ancient Greek word "odeion", a roofed-over theater, the latter indirectly by way of the "Odeon" in Paris, emblematic of a very large and luxurious theater much as "Ritz" was of a grand hotel. For unknown reasons, in 1949 the lyricist of a popular song, "Music! Music! Music!", incorporated the refrain "Put another nickel in, in the nickelodeon", evidently referring to either a jukebox or a mechanical musical instrument such as a coin-operated player piano or orchestrion. The meaning of the word has been muddied ever since. In fact, when it was current in the early 20th century, it was used only to refer to a small five-cent theater and not to any coin-in-the-slot machine, including amusement arcade motion picture viewers such as the Kinetoscope and Mutoscope.

The earliest films had been shown in "peep show" machines or projected in vaudeville theaters as one of the otherwise live acts. Nickelodeons drastically altered film exhibition practices and the leisure-time habits of a large segment of the American public. Although they were characterized by continuous performances of a selection of short films, added attractions such as illustrated songs were sometimes an important feature. Regarded as disreputable and dangerous by some civic groups and municipal agencies, crude, ill-ventilated nickelodeons with hard wooden seats were outmoded as longer films became common and larger, more comfortably furnished motion picture theaters were built, a trend that culminated in the lavish "movie palaces" of the 1920s.
1. Is this about a popular kids' station on modern TV?
2. Does it share the same name?
3. What's that?
4. What contraptions were the first movies played in?
5. How else were movies presented?
6. Did this largely create no change in how people spent their time?
7. Were other types of entertainment added?
8. Such as?
9. Was anyone against these places?
10. Who?
11. Why didn't they like them?
12. Were they refined and comfortable?
13. What happened in the twenties?
14. How long did the simpler shows last?
15. Where did their name come from?
16. What about the last half of the name?
17. Which means?
18. What was a well-known musical track in the forties?
19. Is a place where you can pay to stay overnight in a room mentioned?
20. What was it called?
Numbered answers:
1. no
2. yes
3. Nickelodeon
4. "peep show" machines
5. projected in vaudeville theaters
6. yes
7. yes
8. the Kinetoscope and Mutoscope.
9. yes
10. some civic groups
11. they were regarded as disreputable and dangerous
12. no
13. lavish "movie palaces" came about
14. from about 1905 to 1915
15. he name of the U.S. five-cent coin
16. it came from the ancient Greek word "odeion"
17. a roofed-over theater
18. Music! Music! Music!
19. yes
20. Ritz