Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

A telescope is an optical instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation (such as visible light). The first known practical telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century, by using glass lenses. They found use in both terrestrial applications and astronomy.

Within a few decades, the reflecting telescope was invented, which used mirrors to collect and focus the light. In the 20th century, many new types of telescopes were invented, including radio telescopes in the 1930s and infrared telescopes in the 1960s. The word "telescope" now refers to a wide range of instruments capable of detecting different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and in some cases other types of detectors.

The word "telescope" (from the Ancient Greek , "tele" "far" and , "skopein" "to look or see"; , "teleskopos" "far-seeing") was coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei's instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei. In the "Starry Messenger", Galileo had used the term "perspicillum".

The earliest existing record of a telescope was a 1608 patent submitted to the government in the Netherlands by Middelburg spectacle maker Hans Lippershey for a refracting telescope. The actual inventor is unknown but word of it spread through Europe. Galileo heard about it and, in 1609, built his own version, and made his telescopic observations of celestial objects.

1. When was it invented?
2. What year?
3. By whom?
4. Who asked for government recognition?
5. Who also made one?
6. Are they only used for looking at stars?
7. How are they used?
8. Where does the name come from?
9. What words?
10. Who first called it that?
11. When?
12. How is it used today?
13. Where was it first made?
14. What were used inside them?
15. What were later added?
16. Why?
17. Is this the only type available?
18. What kind came to be in the 1930s?
19. What kind came later?
20. Where was the term first used?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. at the beginning of the 17th century,
2. 1608
3. The actual inventor is unknown
4. Hans Lippershey
5. Galileo
6. no
7. in both terrestrial applications and astronomy
8. the Ancient Greek
9. "tele" "far" and , "skopein" "to look or see"; , "teleskopos" "far-seeing"
10. Giovanni Demisiani
11. 1611
12. as a wide range of instruments capable of detecting different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and in some cases other types of detectors.
13. the Netherlands
14. glass lenses
15. mirrors
16. to collect and focus the light
17. no
18. radio telescopes
19. infrared
20. at a banquet

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Bertie knew there was something in the wind. His mother had been sad in recent days, not sick, just strangely sad. The lion had just lain down beside him, his head warm on Bertie's feet when Father cleared his throat and began," You'll soon be eight, Bertie. A boy needs a proper education. We've found the right place for you, a school near Salisbury in England."

His heart filled with a terrible fear, all Bertie could think of was his white lion. "But the lion," he cried, "What about the lion?"

"I'm afraid there's something else I have to tell you," his father said. Looking across at Bertie's mother, he took a deep breath. Then he told Bertie he had met a circus owner from France, who was over in Africa looking for lions to buy. He would come to their farm in a few days.

"No! You can't send him to a circus!" said Bertie. "People will come to see him. He'll be shut up behind bars. I promised him he never would be. And _ will laugh at him. He'd rather die. Any animal would! " But as he looked across the table at them, he knew their minds were quite made up.

Bertie felt completely betrayed. He waited until he heard his father's deep breathing next door. With his white lion at his heels, he crept downstairs in his pyjamas, took down his father's rifle from the rack and stepped out into the night. He ran and ran till his legs could run no more. As the sun came up over the grassland, he climbed to the top of a hill and sat down, his arms round the lion's neck. The time had come.

"Be wild now," he whispered. "You've got to be wild. Don't ever come home. All my life I'll think of you. I promise I will." He buried his head in the lion's neck. Then, Bertie clambered down the hill and walked away.

When he looked back, the lion was still sitting there watching him; but then he stood up, yawned, stretched, and sprang down after him. Bertie shouted at him, but he kept coming. He threw sticks. He threw stones. Nothing worked.

There was only one thing left to do. With tears filling his eyes and his mouth, he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired over the lion's head.

1. Who knew there was something in the wind?
2. Whose heart was filled with fear?
3. Who was sad?
4. Was there a reason, such as an illness?
5. Where did Bertie belong?
6. Where was the school near?
7. When Bertie glanced over his shoulder, who was still observing him??
8. What did he do next?
9. And then?
10. anything else?
11. Is that all?
12. What did he do then?
13. What was the one thing that was left to do?
14. Where did Bertie hear his Dad's breath?
15. What was he wearing when he snuck out?
16. What did he take off the wall?
17. Then where did he go?
18. What did our local Star rise over?
19. Where was the show proprietor owner from?
20. What was he doing in Africa?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Bertie
2. Bertie
3. His mother
4. no
5. a school
6. Salisbury in England.
7. the lion was
8. but then he stood up
9. yawned
10. stretched
11. no
12. he sprang down after him.
13. he fired over the lion's head.
14. next door
15. his pyjamas
16. his father's rifle
17. out into the night
18. the grassland
19. France
20. looking for lions to buy