Q: Cisco Systems, Inc. (known as Cisco) is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products. Through its numerous acquired subsidiaries, such as OpenDNS, WebEx, Jabber and Jasper, Cisco specializes into specific tech markets, such as Internet of Things (IoT), domain security and energy management.

Cisco is the largest networking company in the world. The stock was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 8, 2009, and is also included in the S&P 500 Index, the Russell 1000 Index, NASDAQ-100 Index and the Russell 1000 Growth Stock Index.

Cisco Systems was founded in December 1984 by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, two Stanford University computer scientists, who pioneered the concept of a local area network (LAN) being used to connect geographically disparate computers over a multiprotocol router system. By the time the company went public in 1990, when it was listed on the NASDAQ, Cisco had a market capitalization of $224 million. Cisco was the most valuable company in the world by 2000, with a more than $500 billion market capitalization.

Cisco Systems was founded in December 1984 by Leonard Bosack, who was in charge of the Stanford University computer science department's computers, and his wife Sandy Lerner, who managed the Graduate School of Business' computers.

Answer the following questions:
1. What does LAN stand for?
2. When was Cisco Systems founded?
3. By who?
4. Who was Sandy Lerner?
5. Was she related to Bosack?
6. How?
7. What is Cisco Systems, Inc.?
8. Where is its home base located?
9. What does it develop, sell and make?
10. When was its stock added to the Dow Jones?
11. How many indexes is it included in?
12. What college did Bosack and Lerner go to?
13. What concept did they come up with?
14. When did Cisco go public?
15. Can you name one of its acquired subsidiaries?
16. What is another?
17. What is the largest networking company worldwide?
18. How much was it worth as of 2000?
19. How many kids do Leonard and Sandy have?
A: 1. local area network
2. December 1984
3. Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner
4. Stanford University computer scientist
5. Yes
6. his wife
7. an American multinational technology conglomerate
8. San Jose, California
9. networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products
10. June 8, 2009
11. Four
12. Stanford University
13. a local area network being used to connect geographically disparate computers over a multiprotocol router system
14. 1990
15. OpenDNS
16. WebEx
17. Cisco
18. more than $500 billion
19. unknown
Q: One day Tom was playing with his younger brother Paul beside the well near their home. Suddenly Tom fell down the well. Paul was frightened. Their parents were not at home. Their father was working in the factory and their mother was helping a neighbor. Tom called his younger brother, Paul. Paul looked at the bottom of the well and saw his brother standing in the water of the well. Tom was five feet tall and the water was only three feet deep. Paul was glad to see his brother safe in the well. Then he ran home and brought a long rope. He was only six and not very strong, so he could not pull Tom out. He was thinking hard and finally had a good idea. He tied one end of the rope to a tree and threw the other end to his brother in the well. Then Tom climbed up the rope and got out of the well. He thanked his brother first and went home to exchange his wet clothes.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was Tom playing with?
2. Where were they playing?
3. Where was the well?
4. What happened to Tom?
5. How did Paul feel about it?
6. Where was Tom's Dad?
7. Were Tom and Paul related?
8. How so?
9. Was Tom drowning?
10. What did Paul do?
11. why?
12. What did he do with one end of the rope?
13. And the other end?
14. How old was Paul?
15. How deep was the water?
16. How tall was Tom?
17. Did Tom get out?
18. What was the first thing he did?
19. Then what?
20. to do what?
A: 1. Paul
2. beside the well
3. near their home
4. fell down the well
5. frightened
6. working in the factory
7. yes
8. brothers
9. no
10. ran home
11. brought a long rope
12. tied it to a tree
13. threw to his brother
14. six
15. three feet
16. five feet tall
17. yes
18. thanked his brother
19. went home
20. exchange his wet clothes
Q: CHAPTER XLIV. THE GALIMAFRE

Speats and raxes, speats and raxes, speat and raxes Lord Somerville's billet

Never wont to let the grass grow under his feet, Henry of Navarre was impatient of awaiting his troops at Pont de Dronne, and proposed to hasten on to Quinet, as a convenient centre for collecting the neighbouring gentry for conference. Thus, early on Monday, a party of about thirty set forth on horseback, including the Ribaumonts, Rayonette being perched by turns in front of her father or mother, and the Duke de Quinet declaring that he should do his best to divide the journey into stages not too long for Philip, since he was anxious to give his mother plenty of time to make preparations for her royal guest.

He had, however, little reckoned on the young King's promptitude. The first courier he had dispatched was overtaken at a _cabaret_ only five leagues from Pont de Dronne, baiting his horse, as he said; the second was found on the road with a lame horse; and the halt a day's journey remained beyond it. The last stage had been ridden, much to the Duke's discontent, for it brought them to a mere village inn, with scarcely any accommodation. The only tolerable bed was resigned by the King to the use of Philip, whose looks spoke the exhaustion of which his tongue scorned to complain. So painful and feverish a night ensued that Eustacie was anxious that he should not move until the Duke should, as he promised, send a mule litter back for him; but this proposal he resented; and in the height of his constitutional obstinacy, appeared booted and spurred at the first signal to mount.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is anxious about the military arrival?
2. Where were they arriving at?
3. Where did he suggest would be a good meeting point?
4. When did they head out?
5. How many went?
6. How did they travel?
7. Who was before her father?
8. For whom was the time shortened?
9. Who were preparations being made for?
10. What happened to the first messenger?
11. And the second messenger?
12. Where was the last stage led?
13. Was it a big inn?
14. Who got the best bed?
15. Who felt anxious that night?
A:
1. Henry of Navarre
2. Pont de Dronne
3. Quinet
4. early on Monday
5. about thirty
6. on horseback
7. Rayonette
8. Philip
9. the King
10. he was overtaken
11. he was found on the road with a lame horse
12. a village inn
13. no
14. Philip
15. Eustacie