Q: China has a growing love affair with the cars.This is clear at the Beijing Asian Games Village Automobile Exchange, where more and more people come to look and increasingly to buy.

Alice Wu is an editor at a Chinese Internet publication.She takes the subway to work, but she is certain she can cut her commute time if she drives herself.Wu says it takes her three hours to get to work now.If she had a car, she says, the same trip would only take her two hours.

The Asian Games Village Automobile Exchange is the biggest car dealership in Beijing.General manager Guo Yong says the business sells more than two thousand cars each week.Guo says it is much easier for Chinese consumers to buy a car now.In the past, it would take them several years to earn enough money to buy a new car.Now, he says, many people only need to save for one year.Also, the emergence of less expensive domestic brands like Chery and BYD means more Chinese can afford cars.

For decades, most Chinese city residents got about by bicycle or public buses and trains.Now, in many areas, the number of new cars is growing faster than the road system, leaving city streets jammed with traffic.Guo Liang has wanted to buy a car for a decade, and he will be the first in his family to own one.He is not _ by Beijing's traffic jams.Guo says if the traffic is too bad, he will use the car for leisure or holidays with his family.Another customer, Zhang Menxin, works in Beijing, but is from Xi'an, more than 900 kilometers away.Zhang says it is very difficult to get a train ticket to return home for Chinese New Year.She adds that train is not convenient.If she had her own car, she says, she could go anytime she wanted to.

World Bank transportation specialist Shomik Mendhiratta says, "Getting a car makes people feel like they have arrived to the middle class, and it's got a huge status associated with it.It's a fantastic thing to have."

1. transportation
2. World Bank
3. A car
4. yes
5. several years
6. 1 year
7. foreign
8. Chery
9. BYD
10. More
11. For decades
12. Traffic
13. a car
14. a decade
15. Holidays
16. Leisure
17. 900 km
18. Editor
19. 3 hours
20. 2 hours

Numbered questions:
1. What is Shomik Mendhiratta a specialist in?
2. Who does he work for?
3. What is a fantastic thing to have?
4. Do people like getting them?
5. How long did it used to take people to earn enough money to buy one?
6. How long does it take people to save now?
7. Is it more expensive to buy a foreign one or a domestic brand?
8. What's one of the domestic brands?
9. What's another?
10. Can Chinese people afford more or less cars because of them?
11. How long have many Chinese city residents used public buses?
12. What's the result of people using more cars on the road system?
13. What will Guo Liang be the first in his family to own?
14. How long has he wanted one?
15. What will he use it for if the traffic is too bad?
16. What else?
17. How far is Xi'an from Beijing?
18. What does Alice Wu do for a living?
19. How long does it take her to get to work now?
20. How long does she think it'd take if she had a car?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. The angel alligator was quite the sight! It loved to scream with all its might!

It loved to roll in mud and sun. Then it would go for a run.

But why did it run? Why did it scream?

It had a fork in its butt!

It sat in a trashcan. This was not a smart thing to do! But he did it, oh yes, oh me, oh you!

The alligator had a beard. It was a great beard. But nobody ever talked about his beard. Why? Because they would only see the fork in its butt!

But one day, the alligator made a friend. The friend needed a fork. How was he to eat his spaghetti without a fork?

But...I'm not sure a butt fork is the best way to eat spaghetti.

Do you? 1. Why did the angel alligator scream?
2. How did that happen?
3. What facial feature did he have?
4. Did anyone notice?
5. What did they focus on instead?
6. What did the animal do next?
7. What did he require?
8. Why
9. What did the animal love to do?
10. Why did it gallop away?
numbered_answers: 1. It had a fork in its butt
2. unknown
3. a beard
4. no
5. the fork in its butt
6. made a friend
7. a fork
8. to eat his spaghetti
9. roll in mud and sun
10. unknown

Ann Arbor was founded in 1824, named for wives of the village's founders and the stands of Bur Oak trees. The University of Michigan moved from Detroit to Ann Arbor in 1837, and the city grew at a rapid rate in the early to mid-20th century. During the 1960s and 1970s, the city gained a reputation as a center for left-wing politics. Ann Arbor became a focal point for political activism and served as a hub for the civil-rights movement and anti-Vietnam War movement, as well as various student movements.

Ann Arbor was founded in 1824 by land speculators John Allen and Elisha Walker Rumsey. On 25 May 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as "Annarbour;" this represents the earliest known use of the town's name. Allen and Rumsey decided to name it for their wives, both named Ann, and for the stands of Bur Oak in the 640 acres (260 ha) of land they purchased for $800 from the federal government at $1.25 per acre. The local Ojibwa named the settlement kaw-goosh-kaw-nick, after the sound of Allen's sawmill. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. When did the University of Michigan move?
2. Where?
3. When was it founded?
4. By who?
5. What did they do for a living?
6. Did the college gain a political reputation?
7. For what "wing" of politics?
8. What did they protest?
9. Anything else they were involved in?
10. What?
11. When was the town named?
12. Did they ever change the spelling?
13. What was it named after?
14. What were their names?
15. How much did the town cost?
16. What price per acre?
17. Did the Ojibwa call it something different?
18. What?
19. What did they name it after?
Answer:
1. 1837
2. Ann Arbor
3. 1824
4. John Allen and Elisha Walker Rumsey.
5. land speculators
6. Yes
7. left-wing
8. Vietnam War
9. Yes
10. civil-rights movements and student movements.
11. 25 May 1824
12. Yes
13. Their wives
14. both named Ann
15. $800
16. $1.25
17. Yes
18. kaw-goosh-kaw-nick
19. sound of Allen's sawmill.