Problem: My favourite great book is The adventure of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Tom lives with his aunt Polly in a quiet street of St. Petersburg, Missouri. He's a lively and clever young boy, and he finds himself in many exciting adventures . He runs away with his friends, Huck Finn and Joe, to an island in the middle of the Mississippi River for several days. With Huck he goes looking for treasure, with Becky he gets lost in a cave and finally they find a box of gold. My favourite scene in the book is when everyone thinks Tom is dead. He decides to go to his town funeral. He hides and watches for a time and then suddenly he appears. Everyone is surprised to see him but they're also pleased to see him alive. Tom is the hero of the story, but there are another important characters. Huck is an outsider and everyone is afraid of him . Becky is pretty with fair hair, Joe is Tom's best friend and Injun Joe is the bad man of the story. The theme of the story is about children growing up. It describes how strangers are seen in small towns of America. Finally, it talks about freedom, social rules and how people are punished for bad behavior. Why do I think The Adventure of Tom Sawyer is a great book? Mark Twain wrote the story in 1876, but it's still read and loved by people all over the world today. And although it's only a story. Twain wrote it in the everyday English of the southern states of America in the 19thcentury, so it sounds very real. Today it's thought to be one of the greatest books in American literature. Go on--read it! I know you'll enjoy it, too.
1. Who wrote the Adventure of Tom Sawyer?
2. What year did he write it?
3. Who does Tom live with in the book?
4. Do they live in Texas?
5. What state do they live in?
6. Who does Tom run away with?
7. What were there names?
8. What do Huck and Becky find in a cave?
9. What did everyone think happened to Tom?
10. Who is Tome's best friend?
11. And who is the villain?
12. What's the book's theme?
13. Who's pretty with light hair?
14. Did Twain write the book in Spanish?
15. When Tom ran away with Huck and Joe, where did they go?
16. What does Tom do at his own funeral?
17. Are people mad when they see him?
18. Who's the hero of the tale?
19. What's the name of the town that he and his aunt live in?
20. How many days did he run away to the island for?
21. Is Huck a local?
22. Are people afraid of him?
23. What century was the book written in?
Answer: 1. Mark Twain.
2. 1876
3. his aunt Polly
4. no
5. Missouri.
6. his friends,
7. Huck Finn and Joe
8. a box of gold.
9. that he is dead.
10. Joe
11. Injun Joe
12. children growing up
13. Becky
14. no
15. to an island in the middle of the Mississippi River
16. He hides and watches
17. they're pleased to see him alive
18. Tom
19. St. Petersburg
20. several
21. no
22. yes
23. 19th

Problem: (CNN) -- A Mexican man who was allegedly killed on orders from his own cartel believed they were hunting for him after he began working as an informant and was fearful for his life, according to court documents.

Police say soldier Michael Jackson Apodaca, 18, acted as the gunman.

Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana began to worry after he began working as an informant for immigration officials in the United States.

"The victim was concerned for his own well-being and the safety of his family," the documents said, referencing statements the victim made to a witness.

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials gave Gonzalez a visa so he could live in El Paso, Texas, his fellow Juarez cartel members began to get suspicious, El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen said at a press conference.

Allen said Gonzalez's exit from Mexico, combined with a raid on a cartel warehouse and the arrest of cartel lieutenant Pedro "El Tigre" Aranas Sanchez led cartel members to believe he might be working as an informant, Allen said.

Then, a Mexican newspaper named Gonzalez as an informant in the arrest of the high-ranking cartel member, according to court documents. Police say Gonzales quickly became the target of his own cartel.

Police said Gonzalez knew if his fellow cartel members found him, he would likely be killed, police said.

On May 15, the cartel found him.

He was shot eight times outside his home in El Paso, Texas, police said.

Pfc. Michael Jackson Apodaca, 18, Ruben Rodriguez Dorado, 30, and Christopher Andrew Duran, 17, were each named as suspects Monday and each are facing one count of capital murder. The three men are being held on $1 million bond.
1. What did Immigration and Customs Enforcement give Gonzalez?
2. What happened to him in El Paso?
3. How many times was he s
4. By whom?
5. What happened at the same time Gonzalez left Mexico?
6. What was the date when he was shot?
7. How old was Apodaca?
8. Who is El Tigre?
Answer: 1. A visa to live in El Paso
2. He was shot and killed
3. eight times
4. Michael Jackson Apodaca
5. a Mexican newspaper named Gonzalez as an informant in the arrest of the high-ranking cartel member
6. May 15
7. 18
8. a cartel lieutenant

Problem: Originally based on the English alphabet, ASCII encodes 128 specified characters into seven-bit integers as shown by the ASCII chart on the right. The characters encoded are numbers 0 to 9, lowercase letters a to z, uppercase letters A to Z, basic punctuation symbols, control codes that originated with Teletype machines, and a space. For example, lowercase j would become binary 1101010 and decimal 106. ASCII includes definitions for 128 characters: 33 are non-printing control characters (many now obsolete) that affect how text and space are processed and 95 printable characters, including the space (which is considered an invisible graphic:223).

The code itself was patterned so that most control codes were together, and all graphic codes were together, for ease of identification. The first two columns (32 positions) were reserved for control characters.:220, 2368,9) The "space" character had to come before graphics to make sorting easier, so it became position 20hex;:23710 for the same reason, many special signs commonly used as separators were placed before digits. The committee decided it was important to support uppercase 64-character alphabets, and chose to pattern ASCII so it could be reduced easily to a usable 64-character set of graphic codes,:228, 23714 as was done in the DEC SIXBIT code. Lowercase letters were therefore not interleaved with uppercase. To keep options available for lowercase letters and other graphics, the special and numeric codes were arranged before the letters, and the letter A was placed in position 41hex to match the draft of the corresponding British standard.:23818 The digits 09 were arranged so they correspond to values in binary prefixed with 011, making conversion with binary-coded decimal straightforward.
1. what is based on the eng. alphabet?
2. how was it made?
Answer:
1. ASCII
2. encodes 128 specified characters into seven-bit integers