Q: 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. 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

Numbered questions:
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?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. The automotive industry is a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, and selling of motor vehicles, some of them are called automakers. It is one of the world's most important economic sectors by revenue. The automotive industry does not include industries dedicated to the maintenance of automobiles following delivery to the end-user, such as automobile repair shops and motor fuel filling stations.

The term "automotive" was created from Greek "autos" (self), and Latin "motivus" (of motion) to represent any form of self-powered vehicle. This term was proposed by Elmer Sperry.

The automotive industry began in the 1890s with hundreds of manufacturers that pioneered the horseless carriage. For many decades, the United States led the world in total automobile production. In 1929, before the Great Depression, the world had 32,028,500 automobiles in use, and the U.S. automobile industry produced over 90% of them. At that time the U.S. had one car per 4.87 persons. After World War II, the U.S. produced about 75 percent of world's auto production. In 1980, the U.S. was overtaken by Japan and became world's leader again in 1994. In 2006, Japan narrowly passed the U.S. in production and held this rank until 2009, when China took the top spot with 13.8 million units. With 19.3 million units manufactured in 2012, China almost doubled the U.S. production, with 10.3 million units, while Japan was in third place with 9.9 million units. From 1970 (140 models) over 1998 (260 models) to 2012 (684 models), the number of automobile models in the U.S. has grown exponentially. 1. does the automobile industry include maintenance of automobiles?
2. when did the automotive industry begin?
3. what two root words make up automotive?
4. from which languages are they taken?
5. who came up with the term?
6. how many automobiles were in use by 1929?
7. what percent of those were produced by the U.S.?
8. what are the organizations that make motor vehicles called?
9. what percent of cars were produced by the u.s. after world war II?
10. when was the U.S. overtaken by Japan?
numbered_answers: 1. No
2. 1890s
3. "autos" and "motivus"
4. Greek and Latin
5. Elmer Sperry.
6. 32,028,500
7. over 90%
8. The automotive industry
9. about 75 percent
10. In 1980

CHAPTER XXXV. THE ITALIAN PEDLAR

This caitiff monk for gold did swear, That by his drugs my rival fair A saint in heaven should be.--SCOTT

A grand cavalcade bore the house of Quinet from Montauban--coaches, wagons, outriders, gendarmes--it was a perfect court progress, and so low and cumbrous that it was a whole week in reaching a grand old castle standing on a hill-side among chestnut woods, with an avenue a mile long leading up to it; and battlemented towers fit to stand a siege.

Eustacie was ranked among the Duchess's gentlewomen. She was so far acknowledged as a lady of birth, that she was usually called Madame Esperance; and though no one was supposed to doubt her being Theodore Gardon's widow, she was regarded as being a person of rank who had made a misalliance by marrying him. This Madame de Quinet had allowed the household to infer, thinking that the whole bearing of her guest was too unlike that of a Paris _bourgeoise_ not to excite suspicion, but she deemed it wiser to refrain from treating her with either intimacy or distinction that might excite jealousy or suspicion. Even as it was, the consciousness of a secret, or the remnants of Montauban gossip, prevented any familiarity between Eustacie and the good ladies who surrounded her; they were very civil to each other, but their only connecting link was the delight that every one took in petting pretty little Rayonette, and the wonder that was made of her signs of intelligence and attempts at talking. Even when she toddled fearlessly up to the stately Duchess on her canopied throne, and held out her entreating hands, and lisped the word '_nontre_,' Madame would pause in her avocations, take her on her knee, and display that wonderful gold and enamel creature which cried tic-tic, and still remained an unapproachable mystery to M. le Marquis and M. le Vicomte, her grandsons. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who is quoted?
2. Was something lisped?
3. What?
4. What came to the house?
5. Where were they going?
6. Where was they from?
7. How long was the journey?
8. Was it an easy journey?
9. Who's husband died?
10. Who died?
Answer:
1. SCOTT
2. yes
3. nontre
4. coaches, wagons, outriders, gendarmes
5. a grand old castle standing on a hill-side
6. Montauban
7. a whole week
8. Yes but the group was awkward to travel
9. Madame Esperance
10. Theodore Gardon