Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue restaurant, then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this small selection they added one new idea: quick service,no waiters or waitresses, and no tips.

Their hamburgers were sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity , for the brothers had developed a strict routine for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks' sticking to their routine. Their new drive-in became surprisingly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundred during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.

Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954 when he was selling milkshake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the special attraction of the brothers' fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise other copies of their restaurants. The agreement included the right to duplicate the menu, the equipment, even their red and white buildings the golden arches .

Today McDonald's is really a household name. In 1976, McDonald's had over$1 billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most surprising successes in modern American business history.
1. Who started a drive-in business?
2. What year did this happen?
3. And where?
4. Had they owned a business before?
5. How much were the burgers sold for?
6. How much if you wanted cheese?
7. Was the menu shortened?
8. What did they offer on the new menu?
9. Did they take tips?
10. What was the name of the salesperson who met them?
11. When did they meet?
12. What was he selling at the time?
13. How many sales did McDonald's have in the 1970's?
14. Did their food have a uniformity about it?
15. Before they met Ray, how many restaurants had they opened?
16. Is McDonald's well known today?
17. Was the new drive in more popular for lunch or dinner?

Numbered answers:
1. Mac and Dick McDonald
2. 1939
3. San Bernardino, California
4. Yes
5. fifteen cents
6. four cents
7. Yes
8. French fries, hamburgers, and sodas
9. no
10. Ray Kroc
11. 1954
12. milkshake-mixing machines
13. $1 billion
14. Yes
15. ten
16. Yes
17. lunch

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER TWELVE.

THE STORM--THE WRECK OF THE HOMEWARD BOUND--THE LIFEBOAT.

A stern chase never was and never will be a short one. Old Coleman, in the course of quarter of a mile's run, felt that his powers were limited and wisely stopped short; Bax, Guy, and Tommy Bogey held on at full speed for upwards of two miles along the beach, following the road which wound along the base of the chalk cliffs, and keeping the fugitive well in view.

But Long Orrick was, as we have seen, a good runner. He kept his ground until he reached a small hamlet named Kingsdown, lying about two and a half miles to the north of Saint Margaret's Bay. Here he turned suddenly to the left, quitted the beach, and made for the interior, where he was soon lost sight of, and left his disappointed pursuers to grumble at their bad fortune and wipe their heated brows.

The strength of the gale had now increased to such an extent that it became a matter not only of difficulty but of danger to pass along the shore beneath the cliffs. The spray was hurled against them with great violence, and as the tide rose the larger waves washed up with a magnificent and overwhelming sweep almost to their base. In these circumstances Guy proposed to go back to Saint Margaret's Bay by the inland road.

"It's a bit longer," said he, as they stood under the lee of a wall, panting from the effects of their run, "but we shall be sheltered from the gale; besides, I doubt if we could pass under the cliffs now."
1. What did Old Coleman feel in the course of a quarter mile's run?
2. Who kept running for upwards of two miles?
3. Who kept running until he reached a small hamlet?
4. What did he leave his disappointed pursuers to do?
5. What was the gale's strenghts extent?
Numbered answers:
1. his powers were limited
2. Bax, Guy, and Tommy Bogey
3. Long Orrick
4. grumble at their bad fortune
5. unknown