Q: The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console that was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the successor to the PlayStation, and is the second installment in the PlayStation lineup of consoles. It was released on March 4, 2000 in Japan, October 26, 2000 in North America, November 24, 2000 in Europe, and November 17, 2000 in Australia. It competed with Sega's Dreamcast, Microsoft's Xbox, and Nintendo's GameCube in the sixth generation of video game consoles.

Announced in 1999, the PlayStation 2 was the first PlayStation console to offer backwards compatibility for its predecessor's DualShock controller, as well as for its games. The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling video game console of all time, selling over 155 million units, with 150 million confirmed by Sony in 2011. More than 3,874 game titles have been released for the PS2 since launch, and more than 1.5 billion copies have been sold. Sony later manufactured several smaller, lighter revisions of the console known as "Slimline" models in 2004 and well on, and in 2006, announced and launched its successor, the PlayStation 3.

Even with the release of its successor, the PlayStation 2 remained popular well into the seventh generation and continued to be produced until January 4, 2013, when Sony finally announced that the PlayStation 2 had been discontinued after 13 years of production one of the longest runs for a video game console. Despite the announcement, new games for the console continued to be produced until the end of 2013, including "Final Fantasy XI: Seekers of Adoulin" for Japan, "Pro Evolution Soccer 2014" for North America and Europe, and "FIFA 14" for Brazil.

1. PlayStation 2
2. Sony Computer Entertainment.
3. March 4, 2000 in Japan.
4. Sega's Dreamcast
5. Microsoft's Xbox
6. Yes.
7. Over 155 million units
8. More than 3,874
9. Yes.
10. Yes
11. "Slimline"
12. unknown
13. 13
14. The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling video game console of all time,

Numbered questions:
1. What does PS2 Stand for?
2. What company made it?
3. What year?
4. Name a competitor?
5. Was there another one?
6. What PS2 popular?
7. How many units sold?
8. How many game releases?
9. Was it able to play games from original PlayStation.
10. Where there other PS2 versions?
11. What was it called?
12. When was Playstion 3 announced?
13. How many years of production for PS2.
14. Was that long or short for the industry?

Q: The connection shared by grandparents and grandchildren is something very special and despite the changing family situation, it still remains strong across generations. For most of us, our grandparents were our first best friends, the ones with whom we shared our secrets and our pain.

In majority of the cases, grandparents would have babysat their grandchildren while parents were busy working and didn't have much time for their children. Even as a kid grows up, the love and affection for grandparents never dies, and for many teens, visiting grandparents or living with them in the same house is a pleasure. Kedar Patwary, a mass communication student, says, "I often end up having long conversations with my grandfather about the evolution of Indian society and I really admire him for the patience with which he answers all my questions. "

Many teenagers feel that their parents treat them as grown-ups, while their grandparents give them much freedom.

Leela Narayanan, a grandmother. says that she loves to

her grandchildren and cook favorite dishes for them. She further adds that her eldest granddaughter, who is now 19, was brought up by her till she was four and the closeness they shared remains the same even now.

At times, the gap m generations plays a negative role, when grandparents find it difficult adjusting to the modern lifestyle. Technology is what works against this relationship. Youngsters' eing crazy about with gadgets leaves them with no time for their loved ones.

Maria Kutty, is a grandmother t0 12 kids. Her face lights up every time her grandchildren are mentioned. But she has one complaint. "All my children stay close to me but when they come to visit and I want to spend time with them, I can't find them anywhere. They only have time for clickety-clackety things in their hands. Sometimes they listen to loud music and talk about things I don't understand. I feel very sad when I think of all those times," she says.

1. Kedar Patwary and her grandfather
2. Technology
3. Maria Kutty
4. The one she has with her grandchildren.
5. clickety-clackety things
6. Kedar Patwary
7. for his patience
8. Leela Narayanano
9. her grandchildren
10. 19

Numbered questions:
1. Who spends time talking about evolution of Indian society?
2. What is a barrier to the granparents relationships with some young people?
3. Who has a dozen grandkids?
4. What is a special relationship highlighted here?
5. What type of device is she frustrated with?
6. Who is in college?
7. Why does she admire him?
8. Who makes meals?
9. who does she participate in this with?
10. how old is she now?

Q: CHAPTER IX.

Without disclosing the full extent of Jim's defection and desertion, Clarence was able to truthfully assure the Hopkins family of his personal safety, and to promise that he would continue his quest, and send them further news of the absentee. He believed it would be found that Jim had been called away on some important business, but that not daring to leave his new shanty exposed and temptingly unprotected, he had made a virtue of necessity by selling it to his neighbors, intending to build a better house on its site after his return. Having comforted Phoebe, and impulsively conceived further plans for restoring Jim to her,--happily without any recurrence of his previous doubts as to his own efficacy as a special Providence,--he returned to the rancho. If he thought again of Jim's defection and Gilroy's warning, it was only to strengthen himself to a clearer perception of his unselfish duty and singleness of purpose. He would give up brooding, apply himself more practically to the management of the property, carry out his plans for the foundation of a Landlords' Protective League for the southern counties, become a candidate for the Legislature, and, in brief, try to fill Peyton's place in the county as he had at the rancho. He would endeavor to become better acquainted with the half-breed laborers on the estate and avoid the friction between them and the Americans; he was conscious that he had not made that use of his early familiarity with their ways and language which he might have done. If, occasionally, the figure of the young Spaniard whom he had met on the lonely road obtruded itself on him, it was always with the instinctive premonition that he would meet him again, and the mystery of the sudden repulsion be in some way explained. Thus Clarence! But the momentary impulse that had driven him to Fair Plains, the eagerness to set his mind at rest regarding Susy and her relatives, he had utterly forgotten.

1. Clarence
2. no
3. that Jim had been called away on some important business
4. his new shanty
5. the Hopkins family
6. Phoebe
7. to the management of the property
8. the foundation of a Landlords' Protective League for the southern counties
9. Peyton's place
10. with the half-breed laborers on the estate
11. the Americans

Numbered questions:
1. Who promised to return Jim?
2. Did he know why Jim left?
3. What was his guess as to why he left?
4. What did he believe Jim had sold?
5. Who was he trying to return Jim to?
6. Which lady in particular?
7. What was he going to apply himself more practically to?
8. And the foundation of what?
9. Who's place was he trying to fill?
10. Who did he want to get to know better?
11. Who did the half breed laborers have problems with?