input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Once upon a time, there was a family with eighteen children in a small village not far from Nuremberg. Eighteen! In spite of the hopeless condition, two of the children had a dream. They both wanted to pursue their talent for art. After many long discussions, the two boys finally worked out an agreement. They would toss a coin. The loser would go down into the nearby mines and, with his earnings, support his brother who attended the academy. Then, when that brother who won the toss completed his studies, in four years, he would support the other brother at the academy.

They tossed a coin on a Sunday morning after church. Albrecht Durer won and went off to Nuremberg. Albert went down into the dangerous mines and, for the next four years, financed his brother, whose work at the academy was excellent. By the time he graduated, he had earned considerable fees for his works.

When the young artist returned to his village, the Durer family held a festive dinner to celebrate Albrecht's triumphant homecoming, where Albrecht drank a toast to his beloved brother for the years of sacrifice that had enabled him to fulfill his ambition. His closing words were, "Now you can go to Nuremberg to look for your dream, and I will take care of you."

Tears streaming down his pale face, shaking his lowered head from side to side, Albert sobbed, "No... no... no...no. It is too late for me. Look...look at what four years in the mines has done to my hands! I have been suffering from arthritis so badly in my right hand that I cannot even hold a glass to return your toast, much less draw delicate lines with a pen or a brush... For me, it is too late."

To show thanks to Albert for all that he had sacrificed, Albrecht Durer painstakingly drew his brother's abused hands with palms together and thin fingers stretched skyward. He called his powerful drawing simply "Hands", but the entire world almost immediately opened their hearts to his great masterpiece and renamed it "The Praying Hands".

The next time you see a copy of that touching creation, take a second look. Let it be your reminder, if you still need one, that no one - no one - no one ever makes it alone! 1. Who hosted a dinner?
2. When?
3. And why did they do this?
4. Who did he drink a toast to?
5. Why?
6. What did he say at the end?
7. What did the brothers dream of doing when they were kids?
8. How did they plan to do this?
9. Which one got to go to school?
10. Did Albert get to go?
numbered_answers: 1. the Durer family
2. When Albrecht returned to his village
3. to celebrate his triumphant homecoming
4. his brother
5. for the years of sacrifice the brother made to pay for his art school
6. Now you can go to Nuremberg to look for your dream, and I will take care of you
7. pursue their talent for art
8. One would work in the mines to support the other one's tuition, then trade places
9. Albrecht
10. no

Q: The PlayStation Portable (PSP) ( ) is a handheld game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. Development of the handheld was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E32004. The system was released in Japan on , 2004, in North America on , 2005, and in the PAL region on , 2005. It primarily competed with the Nintendo DS, as part of the seventh generation of video games consoles.

The PlayStation Portable became the most powerful portable system when launched, just after the Nintendo DS in 2004. It was the first real competitor to Nintendo's handheld domination, where many challengers, such as SNK's Neo Geo Pocket and Nokia's N-Gage, failed. Its GPU encompassed high-end graphics on a handheld, while its 4.3 inch viewing screen and multi-media capabilities, such as its video player and TV tuner, made the PlayStation Portable a major mobile entertainment device at the time. It also features connectivity with the PlayStation 3, other PSPs and the Internet. It is the only handheld console to use an optical disc format, Universal Media Disc (UMD), as its primary storage medium.

The original PSP model (PSP-1000) was replaced by a slimmer model with design changes (PSP-2000/"Slim & Lite") in 2007. Another remodeling followed in 2008, PSP-3000, which included a new screen and an inbuilt microphone. A complete redesign, PSP Go, came in 2009, followed by a budget model, PSP-E1000, in 2011. The PSP line was succeeded by the PlayStation Vita, released in December 2011 in Japan, and in February 2012 worldwide. The PlayStation Vita features backward compatibility with many PlayStation Portable games digitally released on the PlayStation Network, via PlayStation Store. As of 2017, this is the primary method to purchase PlayStation Portable games digitally because Sony shut down direct access to the PlayStation Store via PSP on March 31, 2016. Shipments of PlayStation Portable hardware ended throughout 2014 worldwide, having sold 80 million units in its 10-year lifetime. Worldwide production of software UMDs ended when the last Japanese factory closed by the end of 2016.

Answer the following questions:
1. When was the PlayStation Portable released?
2. Was it the least powerful at that time?
3. What came out just prior to it?
4. What size was the screen?
5. Could it play movies?
6. How?
7. Could you watch TV with it?
8. How?
9. What type of disc format did it use?
10. What type of storage did it utilize?
11. What does that stand for?
12. Who made the PlayStation?
13. When was PSP Go released?
14. When did the Vita get released in the US?
15. Is it backward compatible?
16. Could it play games downloaded digitally?
17. From where?
18. Through what other site?
19. Is the PlayStation Store still usable directly?
20. When did it end?
A:
1. 2004.
2. No.
3. Nintendo DS.
4. 4.3 inch.
5. Yes.
6. Video player.
7. Yes.
8. TV tuner.
9. Optical.
10. UMD.
11. Universal Media Disc.
12. Sony.
13. 2009.
14. February 2012.
15. Yes.
16. Yes.
17. PlayStation Network,
18. PlayStation Store.
19. No.
20. March 31, 2016.