Q: When Lew Alcindor was 13, and obviously still growing, a group of schools began offering him scholarships . The Alcindors decided to send their only child to Power Memorial Academy, a small school on Manhattan's West Side. At Power, Alcindor came under the control of Coach Jack Donohue, a strict young an who already gained his fame as one of the best coaches in the city.Donohue brought Alcindor along slowly.As a first-year student, the boy was not able to do much but wave his long skinny arms and shoot a basket now and then.But by the second year, when he was 15 years old and nearly 7 feet tall, Alcindor was quick and skillful enough to make the high school All-American team and to lead Power to an undefeated season. From then on he simply got better.Some rival coaches used to take their teams quickly away from the floor before Power warmed up so that their players would not see him any sooner than they had to.Wearing size 16 D shoes and sucking a lollipop , Alcindor would loosen up by starting his leaping lay-ups .Then he would casually shoot the ball with either hand, to the delight of the fans. When reporters and photographers began to follow Alcindor closely, Donohue protected his boy firmly.He simply ordered Lew to talk to no member of the press, and this suited Lew fine.He was not comfortable talking to grown-ups, perhaps because he towered over them.Discouraged photographers began following him in secret as though he were an easily-frightened giraffe.Once after ducking into a subway to escape, Alcindor told a friend that it was all becoming like policemen and robbers."People want you not for yourself," Donohue warned him, "but because you're a basketball player.Don't forget that."

Answer the following questions:
1. What is on the west side of the city?
2. Who was sent there?
3. At what age?
4. Who sent him?
5. Does he have many siblings?
6. Why not?
7. Is the school large?
8. Who watched after him while he was there?
9. Is he a good coach?
10. In which sport?
11. Did Alcindor have small feet?
12. What size are they?
13. Is he 7 feet tall?
14. What candy was he eating?
15. How would he warm up at first?
16. Where did he try to get away?
17. Who was he evading?
18. Were they stalking him?
19. What animal was he compared to?
20. Where is the school located?
A: 1. Power Memorial Academy
2. Lew Alcindor
3. 13
4. his parents
5. no
6. he's an only child
7. no
8. Coach Jack Donohue,
9. yes
10. basketball
11. no
12. ize 16 D shoes
13. when he was 15 years old and nearly 7 feet tall, so probably taller now
14. a lolly
15. leaping lay-ups
16. A subway
17. photographers
18. The coach had ordered Lew to talk no journalist
19. an easily-frightened giraffe
20. Manhattan's West Side.
Q: CHAPTER X

AN ALIEN

The individual on the doorstep had fallen into slumber over his own knees. No greater air of prosperity clung about him than is conveyed by a rusty overcoat and wisps of cloth in place of socks. Shelton endeavoured to pass unseen, but the sleeper woke.

"Ah, it's you, monsieur!" he said "I received your letter this evening, and have lost no time." He looked down at himself and tittered, as though to say, "But what a state I 'm in!"

The young foreigner's condition was indeed more desperate than on the occasion of their first meeting, and Shelton invited him upstairs.

"You can well understand," stammered Ferrand, following his host, "that I did n't want to miss you this time. When one is like this--" and a spasm gripped his face.

"I 'm very glad you came," said Shelton doubtfully.

His visitor's face had a week's growth of reddish beard; the deep tan of his cheeks gave him a robust appearance at variance with the fit of, trembling which had seized on him as soon as he had entered.

"Sit down-sit down," said Shelton; "you 're feeling ill!"

Ferrand smiled. "It's nothing," said he; "bad nourishment."

Shelton left him seated on the edge of an armchair, and brought him in some whisky.

"Clothes," said Ferrand, when he had drunk, "are what I want. These are really not good enough."

The statement was correct, and Shelton, placing some garments in the bath-room, invited his visitor to make himself at home. While the latter, then, was doing this, Shelton enjoyed the luxuries of self-denial, hunting up things he did not want, and laying them in two portmanteaus. This done, he waited for his visitor's return.

Answer the following questions:
1. When was the letter received?
2. Was the man from this country?
3. What was he wearing?
4. What was the mans name?
5. Did he want to be seen?
6. But was he?
A: 1. this evening
2. No
3. overcoat and cloth for socks
4. Shelton
5. No
6. Yes
Q: (CNN) -- Chris Froome retained the yellow jersey on a day of toil and trouble as Ireland's Dan Martin won the ninth stage of the Tour de France.

Sky Team rider Froome, who has a one minute and 25 second lead over his closest challenger, was forced to battle on his own as his teammates failed to give him adequate protection.

Richie Porte lost his grip on second place overall after finishing more than 17 minutes adrift, while Vasili Kiryienka was swept up by a broom wagon and is unlikely to feature in the remainder of the Tour.

There was also misery for Peter Kennaugh, who suffered bruising after falling from his bike -- an incident which left Froome wide open to attack on all fronts.

"This was one of the hardest days I have ever had on the bike," Froome told reporters.

"I had no-one else with me. I am really happy I have come through today. I was completely on my own, I had (sporting director) Nicolas Portal in the car telling me not to worry."

Martin, the nephew of great Irish cyclist Stephen Roche, won the long descent to Bagneres-de-Bigorre with Froome following home 20 seconds later in a pack which included rivals Alejandro Valverde and Alberto Contador.

Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford revealed his surprise at seeing his team struggle with Porte's failure particularly difficult for him to comprehend.

"That was a bit of a surprise, it is not often we've seen Richie have a day like that," Brailsford said.

Answer the following questions:
1. What race is this about?
2. What stage of the tour?
3. Who is Martin the nephew of?
4. Who kept the yellow jersey?
5. Did Froome also win the ninth stage?
6. Who won the ninth stage?
7. Did anyone fall?
8. who fell?
9. Was he injured?
10. Who finished over 17 minutes back?
11. What team does Froome ride for?
12. how big is Froome's lead?
13. Where is Martin from?
14. Was Froome riding with others?
15. Who won the descent?
A:
1. Tour de France.
2. ninth
3. great Irish cyclist Stephen Roche,
4. Chris Froome
5. no
6. Dan Martin
7. yes
8. Peter Kennaugh
9. suffered bruising
10. Richie Porte
11. Sky Team
12. one minute and 25 second
13. Ireland
14. no
15. Martin,