Q: Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world, the second oldest in the United States, and the sole member of the "Big Six" film studios still located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and honored each with a star on the logo. These fortunate few would become the first "movie stars." In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only.

Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

The company's headquarters and studios are located in 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California, United States.

Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company (1895) and Pathe (1896), followed by the Nordisk Film company (1906), and Universal Studios (1912). It is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles.

Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company. Hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the middle class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time (leading to the slogan "Famous Players in Famous Plays"). By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success. Its first film was "Les Amours de la reine Elisabeth", which starred Sarah Bernhardt.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is a subsiiary of Viacom?
2. Is there a shoter name?
3. what is it?
4. What is Paramount?
5. where is it?
6. and they are a member of what?
7. any other memberships mentioned?
8. what?
9. Who was an investor in nickelodeons?
10. where was he from?
11. What significance does 1912 have?
12. How many actors and actresses were contracted in 1916?
13. who did this?
14. what was his occupation at the time?
15. What do the stars on the logo represent?
16. these would become the first what?
17. What did Paramount do in 2014?
18. Are many major film studios in Los Angeles?
19. how many?
20. which one?
A: 1. Paramount Pictures Corporation
2. yes
3. Paramount
4. American film studio
5. Hollywood, California
6. the "Big Six"
7. Yes
8. Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
9. Adolph Zukor
10. Hungary
11. the founding date of the Famous Players Film Company.
12. 22
13. Adolph Zukor
14. film producer
15. the original 22 actors and actresses
16. "movie stars."
17. Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only.
18. No
19. Just one
20. Paramount
Q: Tu Youyou has become the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize, for her work in helping to create an anti-malaria medicine. The 84-year-old's route to the honour has been anything but traditional. In China, she is being called the "three nos" winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she's never worked overseas. In 1967, malaria, a then deadly disease, spread by mosquitoes was _ Chinese soldiers fighting Americans in the jungles of northern Vietnam. A secret research unit "Mission 523 "was formed to find a cure for the illness. Two years later, Tu Youyou was instructed to become the new head of "Mission 523". "Mission523" read ancient books carefully for a long time to find historical methods of fighting malaria. When she started her search for an anti-malarial drug, more than 240,000 compounds around the world had already been tested, without any success. Finally, the team found a brief reference to one substance, sweet wormwood , which had been used to treat malaria in China around 400 AD. The team took out one active compound in wormwood, and then tested it. But nothing was effective until Tu Youyou returned to the original ancient text. After another careful reading, she changed the drug recipe one final time, heating the compound without allowing it to reach boiling point. After the drug showed promising results in mice and monkeys, Tu Youyou volunteered to be the first human recipient of the new drug. " In any case, Tu Youyou is consistently praised for her drive and passion. One former colleague. Lianda Li, says Ms Tu is "unsociable and quite straightforward", adding that "if she disagrees with something, she will say it." Another colleague, Fuming Liao, who has worked with Tu Youyou for more than 40 years, describes her as a "tough and stubborn woman". Stubborn enough to spend decades piecing together ancient texts, she applies them to modern scientific practices. The result has saved millions of lives.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the name of the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize?
2. What was her work?
3. How do they call her in China?
4. Does she have a medical degree?
5. How is the malaria spread?
6. What is the name of the secret research unit?
7. How many compounds were testes around the world?
8. Which compost did the team find that was used to treat maria in China around 400 AD?
9. Did it work?
10. What did Tu Youyou find out about this compost?
11. What did Lianda say about Tu Youyou?
12. How long Fuming Liao has been working with Tu Youyou?
13. How many lives are saved because Tu Youyou?
A: 1. Tu Youyou
2. helping to create an anti-malaria medicine
3. she is being called the "three nos" winner:
4. No
5. Mosquitos
6. Mission 523
7. 240,000
8. sweet wormwood
9. Yes
10. heating the compound without allowing it to reach boiling point.
11. unsociable and quite straightforward
12. More than 40 years
13. millions of lives.
Q: (CNN) -- The Pakistani president Tuesday said his country provided initial help that ultimately led to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, but he said it had no clue about the terror mastermind's whereabouts and didn't participate in the U.S. raid to kill the top militant.

Asif Ali Zardari, writing in a Washington Post op-ed column, said that the raid was not a "joint operation" and bin Laden "was not anywhere we had anticipated he would be."

"And we in Pakistan take some satisfaction that our early assistance in identifying an al Qaeda courier ultimately led to this day," Zardari said, referring to the trusted bin Laden aide whose movements helped the United States find the al Qaeda leader.

U.S. politicians and military officials have roundly criticized Pakistan for not being more robust in the fight against al Qaeda, the Taliban and other militants who have a strong presence along the Afghan-Pakistani border.

But Zardari defended Pakistan's anti-terror activities, saying there has been "a decade of cooperation and partnership between the United States" and his country that ultimately led to bin Laden's death.

Zardari said he "endorses the words" of and "appreciates the credit" from U.S. President Barack Obama about Pakistan's role.

In his announcement of bin Laden's death, Obama said it's "important to note that our counterterrorism cooperation with Pakistan helped lead us to bin Laden and the compound where he was hiding."

Zardari said that "some in the U.S. press have suggested that Pakistan lacked vitality in its pursuit of terrorism, or worse yet, that we were disingenuous and actually protected the terrorists we claimed to be pursuing. Such baseless speculation may make exciting cable news, but it doesn't reflect fact.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is defending their country in this article?
2. What's the name of Pakistan's president?
3. Who was the top militant that they were looking for?
4. Did President Obama credit Pakistan?
5. Has Pakistan been criticized for not being as active in this movemenet?
6. What was the name of the column that Zardari mentioned that it was not a joint operation?
7. Was Bin Laden caught?
8. And was he killed?
9. Did Pakistan know where Bin Laden was located?
10. Who announced Bin Laden's death?
A:
1. Pakistan
2. Asif Ali Zardari
3. Osama bin Laden
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. Washington Post
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. Yes
10. Obama