Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, the Internet. Internet service providers may be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privately owned.

Internet services typically provided by ISPs include Internet access, Internet transit, domain name registration, web hosting, Usenet service, and colocation.

The Internet was developed as a network between government research laboratories and participating departments of universities. By the late 1980s, a process was set in place towards public, commercial use of the Internet. The remaining restrictions were removed by 1995, 4 years after the introduction of the World Wide Web.

In 1989, the first ISPs were established in Australia and the United States. In Brookline, Massachusetts, The World became the first commercial ISP in the US. Its first customer was served in November 1989.

On 23 April 2014, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was reported to be considering a new rule that will permit ISPs to offer content providers a faster track to send content, thus reversing their earlier net neutrality position. A possible solution to net neutrality concerns may be municipal broadband, according to Professor Susan Crawford, a legal and technology expert at Harvard Law School. On 15 May 2014, the FCC decided to consider two options regarding Internet services: first, permit fast and slow broadband lanes, thereby compromising net neutrality; and second, reclassify broadband as a telecommunication service, thereby preserving net neutrality. On 10 November 2014, President Barack Obama recommended that the FCC reclassify broadband Internet service as a telecommunications service in order to preserve net neutrality. On 16 January 2015, Republicans presented legislation, in the form of a U.S. Congress H.R. discussion draft bill, that makes concessions to net neutrality but prohibits the FCC from accomplishing the goal or enacting any further regulation affecting Internet service providers. On 31 January 2015, AP News reported that the FCC will present the notion of applying ("with some caveats") Title II (common carrier) of the Communications Act of 1934 to the internet in a vote expected on 26 February 2015. Adoption of this notion would reclassify internet service from one of information to one of the telecommunications and, according to Tom Wheeler, chairman of the FCC, ensure net neutrality. The FCC is expected to enforce net neutrality in its vote, according to the New York Times.
1. What is an ISP?
2. What does ISP stand for?
3. When was the first one started in the US?
4. Where?
5. What was it called?
6. What is the internet?
7. When was it becoming available to the general population?
8. What things does an ISP generally provide?
9. When was the government thinking about letting them offer fast and slow packages?
10. Who is Susan Crawford?
11. What was her answer to threats to net neutrality?
12. What would happen if broadband was called a telecommunications service?
13. What did Obama want to do about it?
14. who wanted to prevent more rules on ISPs?
15. Is the upcoming vote going to support net neutrality?

Numbered answers:
1. organization that provides services for accessing, using, the Internet
2. Internet service provider
3. In 1989
4. In Brookline, Massachusetts
5. The World
6. developed as a network between government research laboratories
7. November 1989.
8. Internet access, transit web hosting, etc
9. compromise net neutrality
10. a legal and technology expert at Harvard Law School
11. municipal broadband
12. Preserve net neutrality
13. Reclassify it
14. Republicans
15. unknown

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Edward Sims was born in 1892. He was the fifth child and only son of Herbert and Dora Sims. Herbert was a blacksmith , and had a thriving trade making horseshoes. He was determined that his first-born son would follow him into the blacksmith. For this reason, Edward had to leave school at the age of 12,and worked with his father.

However, Edward was _ a blacksmith. Although he has an athletic body, he didn't have strong arms like his father, and he felt dizzy in the heat of the smithy. When he tried to find alternative employment, he found it difficult because he had never learnt to read or write.

One day, he went for an interview at a solictior's office. The job was a runner, taking documents from the office to other offices in the city. The solicitor was pleased to see that Edward was physically fit, but when he discovered that the young man couldn't read or write, he decided against employing him. "How can you deliver documents to other offices," he asked, "if you can't read the addresses on them?"

Bitterly disappointed, Edward left the building and went to wait for a tram to take him back to the suburb where his father's smithy was. Next to the bus stop, a man was selling newspapers from a stand .

"Excuse me, son?" he said. "Would you look after my stand for a moment?"

For the next 20 minutes, Edward sold newspapers, lots of them. When the man came back, he was so delighted with his new assistant's honesty, that he offered him a job. Edward took it immediately.

In the next few months, the two men progressed from working on newspaper stands to selling newspapers, tobacco,confectionery and other goods in a shop. Then they opened a second shop, and a third. Eventually, they had a chain of 25 shops in three cities.

Edward became very rich, so he employed a tutor to teach him to read and write. The tutor was amazed at what Edward had achieved. "Imagine what you could do if you'd been able to read and write when you were younger!" he said.

"Yes!" said Edward. "I could have run myself to exhaustion delivering documents for a solicitor!"
1. Who was offered a job?
2. Because he did what?
3. What occupation did he try to get before that?
4. Did he get it?
5. Why not?
6. How would that impact the work?
7. Was he relieved he didn't get it?
8. How about right after?
9. How did he feel?
10. Did he help sell other stuff for the guy who hired him?
11. Like what?
12. How many stores did they end up having?
13. In only one town?
14. Where then?
15. What had his dad done for a living?
16. Was he good at helping his dad?
17. Why not?
18. How many brothers did he have?
19. What were his parents' names?
20. Did his stores end up going bankrupt?
Numbered answers:
1. Edward
2. sold newspapers
3. a runner
4. No
5. he couldn't read or write
6. he couldn't deliver if he couldn't read the addresses
7. Yes, later on.
8. No
9. Bitterly disappointed
10. Yes
11. newspapers, tobacco,confectionery and other goods
12. 25
13. No
14. three cities
15. making horseshoes
16. No
17. he didn't have strong arms
18. none
19. Herbert and Dora Sims
20. No