Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

"Indeed," George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, " some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home. " But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century,and Americans had already created lightning-bug .But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.

Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug,that is,"to install an alarm". Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others' conversations. Since the 1840s,to bug has long meant" to cheat" , and since the 1940s it has been annoying.

We also know the bug as a _ in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as"little problems and difficulties" that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison" had been up the two previous nights discovering' a bug' in his invented record player."

1. what is the article mostly about?
2. what can a bug refer to?
3. who wrote bugs in his diary?
4. what year?
5. Do Englishmen still use the word?
6. what other things can a bug be besides a person or an insect?
7. like what for example?
8. what is a small eaves-dropping instrument called?
9. what are bugs in the context of computers?
10. what inventor explained it that way?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. bugs
2. it could be a person
3. George Washington
4. 1785
5. no
6. a machine or an object
7. a bug-shaped car.
8. a bug!
9. little problems and difficulties
10. Thomas Edison

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXXVI

"Come on,--I'll show you the real dirt," Brissenden said to him, one evening in January.

They had dined together in San Francisco, and were at the Ferry Building, returning to Oakland, when the whim came to him to show Martin the "real dirt." He turned and fled across the water-front, a meagre shadow in a flapping overcoat, with Martin straining to keep up with him. At a wholesale liquor store he bought two gallon-demijohns of old port, and with one in each hand boarded a Mission Street car, Martin at his heels burdened with several quart-bottles of whiskey.

If Ruth could see me now, was his thought, while he wondered as to what constituted the real dirt.

"Maybe nobody will be there," Brissenden said, when they dismounted and plunged off to the right into the heart of the working-class ghetto, south of Market Street. "In which case you'll miss what you've been looking for so long."

"And what the deuce is that?" Martin asked.

"Men, intelligent men, and not the gibbering nonentities I found you consorting with in that trader's den. You read the books and you found yourself all alone. Well, I'm going to show you to-night some other men who've read the books, so that you won't be lonely any more."

"Not that I bother my head about their everlasting discussions," he said at the end of a block. "I'm not interested in book philosophy. But you'll find these fellows intelligences and not bourgeois swine. But watch out, they'll talk an arm off of you on any subject under the sun."

1. Where had the people eaten together?
2. What building were they at?
3. To where were they to return?
4. What had been bought at the liquor store?
5. What kind of liquor store was it?
6. Which car did he get on?
7. Who was at his heels?
8. And what did he have?
9. Where was the working class ghetto?
10. What month did all this occur?
11. Day or evening?
12. What was Brissenden going to show Martin?
13. Was this done on a whim?
14. What kind of coat was Brissenden wearing?
15. Did Martin have difficulty keeping up with him?
16. Where had Martin been consorting?
17. With what kind of entities had he been consorting?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. San Francisco
2. the Ferry Building
3. Oakland
4. two gallon-demijohns of old port
5. a wholesale liquor store
6. a Mission Street car
7. Martin
8. several quart-bottles of whiskey
9. south of Market Street
10. January
11. evening
12. the real dirt
13. yes
14. an overcoat
15. yes
16. a trader's den
17. gibbering nonentities