Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Chokwe Selassie, aged 13, is working hard to help drivers avoid potholes . The eighth-grader was inspired to kick off his creation on a recent morning, when his mother was driving him to school. Their car was damaged as it went over a huge pothole in the middle of the street in their hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. He decided to do something about the pothole problem in his city.

Chokwe developed the app with his friends Rodriguez Ratliff and Emmanuel Brooks. When the app detects a pothole, it is highlighted in red. And if you get close to the pothole, your phone will warn you with a beep. Drivers can also use the app to report any potholes and look for other routes they can take to avoid roads that have them.

The app relies on current available information about the streets of Jackson, already stored in a database of the city's 311 call system. Through the call system, citizens dial 3-1-1 to report non-emergency problems which include potholes. Chokwe and his friends determined that focusing on the 10 busiest streets in Jackson would give them a large enough sample size to test the prototype.

While developing the app, the boys took part in a Minority Male Makers Program sponsored by Verizon and held at Jackson State University. They learned 3D printing and design, and how to create apps. Through the program Chokwe and his friends received encouragement and guidance.

Although the app isn't yet available for sale, Chokwe is already looking for ways to improve the app. He hopes to add more to it until it spreads all over the country.
1. What is Chokwe trying to help people do?
2. How old is he?
3. Whee does he live?
4. Is he a student?
5. Who was driving a car that got damaged?
6. What did he invent to track potholes?
7. Did he have any help?
8. What were their first names?
9. What happens when a pothole is detected?
10. Will his invention tell you if you're about to hit a pothole?
11. What system has the street info available for the app?
12. How many streets did they use for their prototype?
13. Were they very well traveled roads?
14. Where did the boys learn to make apps?
15. Held where?

Numbered answers:
1. help drivers avoid potholes
2. 13,
3. Jackson, Mississippi
4. yes he's a eighth-grader
5. his mother
6. Chokwe developed the app
7. his friends
8. Rodriguez Ratliff and Emmanuel Brooks.
9. it is highlighted in red.
10. yes, your phone will warn you with a beep
11. city's 311 call system
12. 10
13. unknown
14. Minority Male Makers Program sponsored by Verizon
15. Jackson State University.

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER 22.

"Young blighted Albert," said Keggs the butler, shifting his weight so that it distributed itself more comfortably over the creaking chair in which he reclined, "let this be a lesson to you, young feller me lad."

The day was a week after Lord Marshmoreton's visit to London, the hour six o'clock. The housekeeper's room, in which the upper servants took their meals, had emptied. Of the gay company which had just finished dinner only Keggs remained, placidly digesting. Albert, whose duty it was to wait on the upper servants, was moving to and fro, morosely collecting the plates and glasses. The boy was in no happy frame of mind. Throughout dinner the conversation at table had dealt almost exclusively with the now celebrated elopement of Reggie Byng and his bride, and few subjects could have made more painful listening to Albert.

"What's been the result and what I might call the upshot," said Keggs, continuing his homily, "of all your making yourself so busy and thrusting of yourself forward and meddling in the affairs of your elders and betters? The upshot and issue of it 'as been that you are out five shillings and nothing to show for it. Five shillings what you might have spent on some good book and improved your mind! And goodness knows it wants all the improving it can get, for of all the worthless, idle little messers it's ever been my misfortune to have dealings with, you are the champion. Be careful of them plates, young man, and don't breathe so hard. You 'aven't got hasthma or something, 'ave you?"
1. What kind of job does Keggs do?
2. Who is he talking to?
3. Is he lecturing him?
4. Who is older?
5. Where are they?
6. What kind of job does Albert have?
7. Is Keggs one of them?
8. Who eats here?
9. What meal had just ended?
10. Did Albert like the topic everyone was talking about?
11. Who had gotten married?
12. To who?
13. How did they marry?
14. Are most people happy about it?
15. Is Albert?
16. Who had gone to London?
17. How long after that was this conversation?
18. How much money did Keggs feel Albert wasted?
19. What should he have done with it?
20. What for?

Numbered answers:
1. butler
2. Albert
3. yes
4. Keggs
5. The housekeeper's room
6. wait on the upper servants
7. yes
8. upper servants
9. dinner
10. no
11. Reggie
12. bride
13. elopement
14. yes
15. no
16. Lord Marshmoreton'
17. hour six
18. Five shillings
19. book
20. improved your mind

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
In a far away land known as Board, there was a great man named Pawn. This was a very odd land because the only thing to do was play chess. Pawn did not very much care for chess as he was very bored with it. Another problem Pawn had was that he didn't like some of the other people in this land. They had names like Bishop, Queen, Rook, and Knight. And most of all, there was King. He was the greatest person in Board. One day, during their normal battle, Pawn saw an opening to move to the far end of Board. He almost got hurt by Knight but he got away. Amazingly, when he got to the other end he became as powerful as Queen. With this amazing power, Pawn chose to help keep King safe. All was well until Pawn woke up and knew that it was only a dream. He was still Pawn.
1. what was the place called?
2. was there a lot to do there?
3. what could you do there?
4. who was the best guy in the place?
5. where there other there?
6. who?
7. anyone else?
8. who?
9. who was he?
10. did the care for the other?
11. who did he dislike?
12. did he get injured?
13. why not?
14. did he transform?
15. into what
16. what did he do then?
17. then what happened?
18. did any of this really happen?
19. why not?
Numbered answers:
1. Board
2. no
3. play chess
4. King
5. They had names like Bishop, Queen, Rook, and Knight
6. Bishop, Queen, Rook, and Knight
7. Yes
8. Pawn
9. a great man
10. no
11. Bishop, Queen, Rook, and Knight
12. no
13. he got away
14. yes
15. he became as powerful as Queen
16. keep King safe
17. he woke up
18. no
19. it was a dream