Question: Samuel Osmond is a 19-year-old law student from Cornwall, England. He never studied the piano. However, he can play very difficult musical pieces by musicians such as Chopin and Beethoven just a few minutes after he hears them. He learns a piece of music by listening to it in parts. Then he thinks about the notes in his head. Two years ago, he played his first piece Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven. He surprised everyone around him.

Amazed that he remembered this long and difficult piece of music and played it perfectly, his teachers say Samuel is unbelievable .They say his ability is very rare, but Samuel doesn't even realize that what he can do is special. Samuel wanted to become a lawyer as it was the wish of his parents, but music teachers told him he should study music instead. Now, he studies law and music.

Samuel can't understand why everyone is so surprised. "I grew up with music. My mother played the piano and my father played the guitar. About two years ago, I suddenly decided to start playing the piano, without being able to read music and without having any lessons. It comes easily to me ---I hear the notes and can bear them in mind---each and every note," says Samuel.

Recently, Samuel performed a piece during a special event at his college. The piece had more than a thousand notes. The audience was impressed by his amazing performance. He is now learning a piece that is so difficult that many professional pianists can't play it. Samuel says confidently," It's all about super memory---I guess I have that gift."

However, Samuel's ability to remember things doesn't stop with music. His family says that even when he was a young boy, Samuel heard someone read a story, and then he could retell the story word for word.

Samuel is still only a teenager. He doesn't know what he wants to do in the future. For now, he is just happy to play beautiful music and continue his studies. 1. What does Samuel say he has been gifted?
2. How old is he?
3. What did his parents want him to become?
4. Where is he from?
5. Does he still go to school?
6. What kind of classes does he take?
7. When did he first play a song?
8. What was it?
9. Who wrote it?
10. Did he read it from a sheet?
11. How did he know it?
12. When he first played piano was he able to read the music?
13. What does his mother play?
14. His father?
15. When he was young how did he retell stories? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. super memory
2. 19
3. a lawyer
4. Cornwall, England
5. yes
6. law and music.
7. Two years ago
8. Moonlight Sonata
9. Beethoven
10. no
11. by listening to it
12. no
13. piano
14. guitar
15. word for word

Question: British Women Writers in different periods of time The English Renaissance The English Renaissance began in the later part of the fifteenth century and lasted until the 1660s. Among the most famous women writers of this period is Aphra Behn, who is seen as the first professional woman writer in English. She wrote a number of plays that dealt with topics such as racism and slavery. A good example isOroonokopublished in 1688. Aphra Behn's works include also the playsThe Amourous Prince,The Town Fop, The Dutch Loverand her only tragedy,Abdelazer. The neoclassical period Among the well-known women in Bristish literature during the neoclassical period, from 1660 to the end of the eighteenth century, is Anne Finch. She wrote poetry and tried to express all that she saw and experienced. Two other women are recognized for their contribution to neoclassical British literature: Mary Astell and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Mary Astell was a philosopher and a feminist writer. She is best known now for her theories on the education of women. The Romantic period Jane Austen is one of the most famous women writers that worked during the Romantic period (1798-1832). Her works include several novels, most of which focus on marriage as a way for young women to secure social standing and economic security. Her most famous novels arePride and Prejudice,Sense and SensibilityandEmma. Another famous woman writer from the English Romanticism is Mary Shelley. She is the author ofFrankenstein,History of Six Weeks TourandThe Last Man. The Victorian period The Victorian period, between the 1830s and 1900, was the time when the Bronte sisters, George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell lived and wrote. Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte produced many British literary classics. Charlotte's novels includeJane Eyre,Shirley,Villette and The Professor. Mary Anne Evans adopted the male pen name George as she wanted to set herself apart from the feminine genre of cookbooks and domestic moral tales. Her most famous novel isThe Mill on the Flosspublished in 1860. 1. When did the English Renaissance begin?
2. When did it end?
3. Who is one of the women writers
4. What did she write?
5. Did she write more than one play?
6. What is one of them?
7. When was it published?
8. What is another example?
9. When did the neoclassical period start?
10. When did it end?
11. What women is famous from the era?
12. What did she write?
13. Are any other women famous?
14. Who are they?
15. What was Mary Astell?
16. When did Jane Austen write?
17. When was she active?
18. What period is this called?
19. Who is another famous woman writer from the Romantic period
20. What did she write? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. in the later part of the fifteenth century
2. in the 1660s
3. Aphra Behn
4. plays
5. Yes
6. Oroonoko
7. 1688
8. Abdelazer
9. 1660
10. the end of the eighteenth century
11. Anne Finch
12. poetry
13. Yes
14. Mary Astell and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
15. a philosopher
16. Pride and Prejudice,
17. 1798-1832
18. the Romantic period
19. Mary Shelley.
20. Frankenstein

Question: Jason lay in his bed after a night of no sleep. He was too excited for today. There was a football game that he was going to play with his friends. It would be him, Jack, James, and John competing with David, Ruth, Parsons, and Mike. David, Rush, Parsons, and Mike were much bigger than them, and were big bullies at school. When Jason got up, he had the choice to eat cereal, candy, chocolate milk, or pizza. He chose to eat cereal because he thought that eating something good for you would make him play better. They were going to play at the school, but the school was closed. They then went to the park, and got their teams set up. Jason's team got the ball first and they scored! David's team got the ball next, but they also scored. Unfortunately, it started raining. Everyone was getting wet, and people were starting to get angry. A fight soon broke out, and they all started fighting with each other. Eventually, Jason yelled for everyone to stop. They all stopped and chose to eat pizza together and forgive each other. Jason then went home bruised and dirty, and his parents grounded him for getting into a fight. 1. Where was Jason?
2. When?
3. How did he feel?
4. For when?
5. Why?
6. With whom?
7. How many friends?
8. And how many were bigger than him?
9. Who were they?
10. How many breakfast choices did he have?
11. And what'd he choose?
12. Why?
13. Where were they playing?
14. And did they?
15. Why?
16. Where did they try then?
17. And did that work?
18. Who had the ball first?
19. And what was the result?
20. Then who? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. in his bed
2. after a night of no sleep
3. too excited
4. for today
5. There was a football game that he was going to play
6. his friends
7. Seven
8. Four
9. David, Rush, Parsons, and Mike
10. Four
11. cereal
12. because he thought that eating something good for you would make him play better.
13. at the school
14. No
15. the school was closed.
16. the park
17. Yes
18. Jason's team
19. they scored
20. David's team