Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

After the first World War, a small group of veterans returned to their village in Britain. Most of them managed to get along fairly well, but one--Francis Blustering, who had been wounded and who never recovered his strength-- was unable to work like others. In time he became very poor. Yet he was too proud to accept anything from the people in the village.

Once, these veterans held a reunion dinner in the home of Jules Grandin, who had made a good deal of money. Grandin produced a curiosity --a large old gold coin. Each man examined it with interest as it passed around the long table. All, however, had drunk wine freely and the room was full of noisy talk, so that the gold piece was soon forgotten. Later, when Grandin remembered it and asked for it, the coin was missing.

One of them suggested everyone be searched, to which all agreed, except Blustering. "You refuse, then?" asked Grandin. Blustering said with a red face, "Yes, I cannot allow it."

One by one, the others turned out their pockets. When the coin failed to appear, attention was focused on poor Blustering. Under the pitying stares of his friends, he walked out and returned to his home.

A few years later, Grandin made his house repaired. A workman found the gold coin, buried in dirt between planks of the floor. Hurrying to Blustering's home, Grandin apologized to him.

"But why didn't you allow yourself be searched?"

"Because I was a thief," Blustering said brokenly. "For weeks we had not had enough to eat and my pockets were full of food that I had taken from the table to carry home to my wife and hungry children."

1. When does this story take place?
2. Who returned to their village?
3. Did all of them do well?
4. Who didn't?
5. Why?
6. Did he have a job?
7. Who held a dinner?
8. What was the reason for the dinner?
9. What did Grandin show the men?
10. Did Grandin forget about the coin?
11. What did one of the men say they should do?
12. Did everyone say okay?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Britain
2. small group of veterans
3. No
4. Francis Blustering
5. wounded and never recovered his strength
6. No
7. veterans
8. renunion dinner
9. a large old gold coin
10. Yes
11. One of them suggested everyone be searched.
12. No

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Li Mingyang only joined Alibaba's investment platform one month ago but he has already transferred almost all the cash in his bank account - nearly Rmb200,000 ($32,000) - to the online fund. He is far from alone . More than 30 million people in China have signed up to Yu'E Bao, or "Leftover Treasure", only six months since its launch.

Initially as the Chinese e-co mmerce group as a platform for its users to manage extra funds in their online payment accounts, Yu'E Bao is becoming something far more powerful: a straight-up substitute for traditional bank deposits ."There's no point in keeping money in the bank any more. This is just as reliable, more flexible and you can earn a lot more from it," Mr Li says.

A quick hit of the Yu'E Bao application on his phone shows the Shanghai-based editor has earned more interest on his account over the past day than 94 per cent of other local users ."This is fun, almost like a computer game," he says with a laugh.

For every Rmb12 that companies and individuals have deposited in Chinese banks since June, they placed roughly Rmb1 in their Yu'E Bao accounts, according to Financial Times calculations based on official data. While it remains tiny compared with total deposits in the Chinese banking system, this transfer of cash from banks to the Alibaba platform is only speeding up. In the process, it threatens to upend( ) the rules of China's state-protected financial department, break banks' profit model and shifting power to savers in a way that was scarcely imaginable at the start of this year.

Other Chinese tech companies are getting in on the act. Tencent, developer of the hugely popular

messaging app WeChat, is said to be designing a fund platform similar to Yu'E Bao. Baidu, the search engine company, began marketing investment products in October.

"Internet companies, with their ability to instantly reach millions of consumers, have already started to change the competitive dynamic in finance," says Ernan Cui, an analyst with GK Dragonomics, a

Beijing-based research firm.

1. What platform did Mungyang join?
2. How long ago?
3. How much has he already transferred?
4. How long ago did Leftover Treasure launch?
5. Yu'E Bao is a substitute for what?
6. What does Mr Li say is the main benefit?
7. He has earned more over the past day than what percent of local users?
8. What did Li compare it to?
9. For ever Rmb12 what amount was placed in their Bao accounts?
10. Who else is getting in on the act?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Alibaba's investment platform
2. one month
3. nearly Rmb200,000
4. six months
5. traditional bank deposits
6. more flexible and you can earn a lot more from it
7. 94
8. a computer game
9. Rmb1
10. Other Chinese tech companies

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

(CNN) -- A former campaign staffer for San Diego Mayor Bob Filner became the second woman to publicly accuse him of sexual harassment, saying Tuesday that the then-congressman patted her "posterior" while at a fundraising event.

Laura Fink, who now runs a political consulting firm, told KPBS-TV that it happened in 2005 when she was working as Filner's deputy campaign manager.

Fink said she didn't go public with the incident at the time because she was trying to build her political career. But she said she now feels emboldened to tell her story after Filner's former spokeswoman, Irene McCormack Jackson, sued him for sexual harassment Monday.

Jackson said Filner subjected her and other women to "crude and disgusting" comments and inappropriate touching. She said she resigned as Filner's communications director in June after deciding the mayor would not change his behavior.

"I had to work and do my job in an atmosphere where women were viewed by Mayor Filner as sexual objects or stupid idiots," Jackson said. She said Filner asked her to work without underwear and made repeated sexual advances toward her.

"He is not fit to be mayor of our great city. He is not fit to hold any public office. A man who lacks character makes a mockery of his ideas," she said.

Fink told KPBS on Tuesday that the incident happened as she was escorting Filner from table to table at a fundraising dinner. At one point, she said, someone at the event told Filner that Fink had "worked her ass off" for him.

1. Who is getting the complaints?
2. What is the complaint?
3. Who complained?
4. Who is she?
5. What she does now?
6. Where she told all these?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. the San Diego Mayor Bob
2. sexual harassment
3. Laura Fink
4. former campaign staffer for the Mayor
5. she runs a political consulting firm
6. she KPBS-TV