Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Walter owns three Italian restaurants which are running very well in Rhode Island in America. Every day his restaurants welcome crowds of customers all over the world. He studied to be a cook, but he sees now that his success is the result of a lifetime education. When he opened his first restaurant, all of a sudden his schooling knowledge , the history of his family and his ethics of his father _ . It made him a person who studied and explored the secrets in the food business. Walter's learning never stops. He says " The food business is one where you need to stay on top. Cooks should be trained. You have to keep on studying or you will be left behind." So he spent more time in reading. Every time he gets new ideas from the book, he brings them into his work. Walter also has a clear understanding about success. That is he would like to be remembered as a person who is creative, who believes in the Italian cooking culture in America. Food is like a bridge connecting to the past, to the family and to the country. He says "Success to me is not how much money I make, but if at the end of the day I am able to make fifteen or twenty customers happy, I'm a happy man."

1. From Where did the customers come to Walter's restaurant?
2. Where was the restaurant located?
3. Was that in Italy?
4. What knowledge does Walter have to establish a restaurant
5. What other knowledge did he have in food?
6. Did he ever stop to learn?
7. Did he have any family support on learning?
8. Where did he get new ideas from?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. all over the world
2. Rhode Island
3. no
4. He studied to be a cook
5. He studied the food business
6. No
7. yes
8. From reading books

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

One evening,June Griffith was on her way to pick up her son.Almost immediately,she realized that she had gone the wrong way.She'd driven onto railroad tracks and the underside of her car was caught.

As Griffith tried to remove the car,its headlights attracted the attention of a passerby,Jordan Ricks,a college student.He ran over.

Ricks,22,tried to appear calm as he instructed Gdmth to remove the car.Both of them could now see the wheel between the rails and the uneven track bed.Ricks put his hands under the front fender and gave it a push.It didn't move.

He pushed it again with all his strength,Still,no movement.

From about 50 feet away,a group of students from the nearby university watched the scene.Ricks signaled to them,and five of the guys came over.

He directed them to different sides of the car,and they all put their hands under the flame.

"One,two,three" Ricks yelled.They all pushed.

"One,two,three!" he yelled again.The car didn't move.

At that moment,they felt the ground begin to shake.Then four dings signaled an on coming train,apd the railroad gates dropped down.In the distance,an unclear line of light appeared,followed by the loud noise of a horn .

The guys started yelling,"Get out of the car!Get out of the car!"But Griffith felt _ .

When Griffith glanced in the mirror,she saw the train lights approaching.But she worried that the Arthritis in her feet would prevent her from escaping in time and that her car would bedamaged.One of the students,Tommy Stackhouse,20,saw her shocked face and knew he had to act.He reached for the car door and forced it open.

The train was just a few hundred feet away.In the last few seconds,Stackhouse grasped Griffith's arm and pulled her from the car.His friend,Frank DiPietrapaul,18,grasped her other arm,and the pair pulled Griffith aside.

They watched as the train,crashed into the car,cutting it into half its original size and sending metal pieces flying.Griffith sat crying as the police arrived and sorted through the ruins--and wrote her a ticket for no attention to driving.Eventually,the students went home.

A few days later,a reporter asked the young men and Griffith to reunite at a local coffee shop.There a tearful Griffith hugged her rescuers."These boys are heroes,"she would later tell anyone who would listen."They saved my life."

Ricks feels only grateful for the outcone."It was one of those moments," he says,"when we could have been gone together.It makes you think how precious life is."

1. What was it that made June Griffith realize something was wrong?
2. Who was it that ran over to help her initially?
3. How old was he?
4. What was it the group of men yelled at her ones it was realized a train was getting near?
5. What was it Griffith saw when she glanced in the mirror?
6. How many students came and helped when Rick Signaled them?
7. Who was it that reached for the door and forced it open?
8. How old was he?
9. What did the police write Griffith a ticket for?
10. Where did a reporter ask the young men and Griffith to reunite?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. she had gone the wrong way
2. Jordan Ricks
3. 22
4. "Get out of the car!Get out of the car!"
5. the train lights approaching
6. five
7. Tommy Stackhouse
8. 20
9. no attention to driving.
10. local coffee shop

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

The children's father wanted to know what every one wanted on their pizza. Andy wanted a strawberry on his pizza. Father thought that was funny. Father asked if anyone wanted chicken on the pizza. Sue did not want chicken. Andy wanted chicken. Dan did not want chicken, but their father wanted to get chicken on the pizza. Dan asked if they could have mushrooms on the pizza. Father did not like mushrooms. Andy and Sue wanted to have mushrooms, so their father had them put mushrooms on the pizza. Sue wanted to have green onions on the pizza. Father also wanted green onions. Dan and Andy did not like green onions, so they did not get green onions on the pizza. Father wanted to order thin crust pizza. Dan thought that thin crust pizza had the taste of an old shoe. Sue thought Dan was wrong. Sue wanted thin crust pizza also. Andy wanted thick crust pizza. He did not want thin crust, so their father ordered the pizza with thick crust. The pizza was very good and they ate it all.

1. What did the man want to know?
2. Who wanted something unusual?
3. What was it?
4. What did his dad think about that?
5. Did anyone want mushrooms on it?
6. How many people?
7. What were their names?
8. Did everyone agree on the crust?
9. What kind did Sue want?
10. And Andy?
11. How much of it did they all eat in the end?
12. DId someone want to put olives on it?
13. Who did not like mushrooms?
14. How many kids did he have?
15. How many were boys?
16. And girls?
17. Which one of them thought thin crust tastes like an old shoe?
18. How did he feel about green onions?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. what every one wanted on their pizza
2. Andy
3. a strawberry
4. That it was funny.
5. Yes.
6. Two
7. Andy and Sue
8. No.
9. thin crust pizza
10. thick crust.
11. All.
12. No.
13. Father.
14. Three
15. Two
16. One
17. Dan
18. Didn't like them.