input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Consumer electronics once again topped the list of the most wanted gifts this holiday season. "Seventy-six percent of consumers who plan to buy holiday gifts say that they will spend money or buy at least one technology product; definitely a solid vote of confidence for technology." Steve Koenig is with the Consumer Electronics Association. He says the group's latest research also shows that Americans this year are spending more on technology products. " " From tablet computers to smart phones, American shoppers have been lining up to get the newest and coolest electronic devices on the market. There are more choices today than ever before. "It's kind of hard to make a decision." Tablet computers are one of the best-selling products this year. Brian Tong is Senior Editor of CNET.com. The website reports on tech news and examines the latest electronic products. He says the Apple iPad Mini is one of the most popular tablets. Its starting price is $329. One of Apple's biggest competitors is the Google Nexus 7. It starts at $199. " is more powerful than what's in the iPad Mini, but also it offers you a lot of things like maps that work better than Apple's maps. But Brian Tong says there is one reason why people may like the iPad Mini more than the Nexus 7. "If you just want to read books and surf the Internet, you don't really need to get an iPad Mini, but if you want the largest robust group of apps that's where the iPad and Apple's ecosystem shines the most." Elman Chacon is with the electronics store Best Buy. He says another hot product this season is smart cameras. They connect to the Internet through WiFi. This makes it easy for users to email or upload photographs directly from the camera. "You can literally take a picture and upload it into your Facebook in a matter of seconds. These things are pretty cool because they do a lot of things." Streaming media boxes also connect to the Internet. People are able to watch web content such as movies and YouTube videos on their televisions. Another popular item is wireless speaker systems. The newest ones work with any device that has Bluetooth technology, including smart phones, laptops and tablets. 1. What topped the holiday list once again?
2. What percentage of shoppers voted for it?
3. Who claims US people are spending more on tech products?
4. Who is Senior Editor of CNET.com?
5. What starts at $7.99?
6. It works better than which maps?
7. What starts at $199?
8. Who is Elman Chacon with?
9. What do streaming media boxes attache to?
10. How do they connect to the internet?
numbered_answers: 1. Consumer electronics
2. Seventy-six
3. Steve Koenig
4. Brian Tong
5. unknown
6. Google Nexus 7
7. Google Nexus 7
8. Best Buy
9. Internet
10. through WiFi

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER XI

Newman, on his return to Paris, had not resumed the study of French conversation with M. Nioche; he found that he had too many other uses for his time. M. Nioche, however, came to see him very promptly, having learned his whereabouts by a mysterious process to which his patron never obtained the key. The shrunken little capitalist repeated his visit more than once. He seemed oppressed by a humiliating sense of having been overpaid, and wished apparently to redeem his debt by the offer of grammatical and statistical information in small installments. He wore the same decently melancholy aspect as a few months before; a few months more or less of brushing could make little difference in the antique lustre of his coat and hat. But the poor old man's spirit was a trifle more threadbare; it seemed to have received some hard rubs during the summer. Newman inquired with interest about Mademoiselle Noemie; and M. Nioche, at first, for answer, simply looked at him in lachrymose silence.

"Don't ask me, sir," he said at last. "I sit and watch her, but I can do nothing."

"Do you mean that she misconducts herself?"

"I don't know, I am sure. I can't follow her. I don't understand her. She has something in her head; I don't know what she is trying to do. She is too deep for me."

"Does she continue to go to the Louvre? Has she made any of those copies for me?"

"She goes to the Louvre, but I see nothing of the copies. She has something on her easel; I suppose it is one of the pictures you ordered. Such a magnificent order ought to give her fairy-fingers. But she is not in earnest. I can't say anything to her; I am afraid of her. One evening, last summer, when I took her to walk in the Champs Elysees, she said some things to me that frightened me." 1. who returned to Paris?
2. did he continue his studies?
3. why not?
4. what was he supposed to be studying?
5. alone?
6. with who?
7. did she visit him?
8. where did someone talk a walk?
9. in the morning?
10. in the winter?
numbered_answers: 1. Newman
2. no
3. he had other uses for his time
4. French conversation
5. no
6. M. Nioche
7. yes
8. Champs Elysees
9. no
10. no

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington (CNN) -- The American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a shooting rampage is sitting in a military courtroom for the next week or more, hearing the evidence against him.

The Article 32 hearing began Monday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state to determine if a trial is warranted for U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who could get the death penalty if convicted.

The deadly shooting spree near a small U.S. base in Afghanistan's Kandahar province last March strained already tense U.S.-Afghan relations and intensified a debate about whether to pull out American troops ahead of their planned 2014 withdrawal.

"He committed a mass killing crime, and we would like the court in the United States to implement justice and punish him according to the crime," Ahmad Zia Syamak, a spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai, told CNN on Monday.

Bales acted with "chilling premeditation" and was "lucid, coherent and responsive" when he left the remote outpost and went from house to house, gunning down villagers, Lt. Col. Joseph Morse, the Army's prosecutor, told the court. Women and children were among the 16 dead and six wounded, authorities said.

"Nothing really justifies killing women and children in a noncombat situation," Bales' attorney, John Henry Browne, told CNN earlier. "But there may be explanations if that's true."

Read more: Stunned friends recall good deeds of Afghanistan killings suspect

The first soldier to testify Monday was Cpl. David Godwin, who said he watched a movie and drank Jack Daniels whiskey with Bales and another soldier, Sgt. Jason McLaughlin, just hours before the alleged attack. 1. What court does Ahmad want to implement justice?
2. Who does Ahmad speak for?
3. Who's that?
4. What news organization did Ahmad express his opinion to?
5. When?
6. Is Ahmad hoping someone will be punished?
7. Who?
8. Did he do something bad?
9. What is he accused of doing?
10. Does anything justify killing women and children in a noncombat situation?
11. Who made that statement?
12. What's his name?
13. Does he think there's a valid explanation if it's true?
14. Are Bales' friends stunned by his actions?
15. When did the first soldier testify?
16. Who was it?
17. What's his rank?
18. What did he do with Bales hours before the attack?
19. What else?
20. Who was the other soldier with them?
numbered_answers:
1. the court in the United States to implement justice
2. Hamid Karzai,
3. The Afghan President
4. CNN
5. "Monday
6. Yes
7. Robert Bales
8. Yes allegedly
9. killing 16 Afghan villagers in a shooting rampage
10. no
11. Bales' attorney
12. John Henry Browne
13. there may be
14. yes
15. monday
16. David Godwin
17. Cpl.
18. watched a movie
19. drank Jack Daniels
20. Jason McLaughlin