Q: For their nick-of-time acts, Toby, a 2-year-old dog, and Winnie, a cute cat, were named Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

As Amy Paul choked on a piece of apple at her home, her dog jumped up, landing hard on her chest and forcing the piece in her throat out. When the Keesling family of Indiana was about to be killed by carbon monoxide, their cat clawed at the wife Cathy's hair until she woke up and called for help.

No one could explain their timely heroics.

Both pets were rescued by their owners in _ -----Toby as a 4-week-old thrown into a garbage bin to die, and Winnie as a week-old orphan hiding under a barn, so helpless that Cathy's husband, Eric, had to feed her milk with an eyedropper.

As the Keeslings recalled it, a gas-driven pump being used broke down, spreading carbon monoxide through the house. By the time Winnie went to rescue, the couple's 14-year-old son was already unconscious. "Winnie jumped on the bed and was clawing at me, with a kind of angry sound," Cathy Keesling said. The state police responding to her 911 call said the family was only minutes from death, judging by the amount of poisonous gas in the house.

Amy Paul's husband was at his job when she took a midday break from making jewelry and bit into an apple. "Normally I peel them, but I read in Good Housekeeping Magazine that the skin has all the nutrients, so I ate the skin, and that's what caused me to choke," she recalled. "I couldn't breathe and I was in panic when Toby jumped on me. He never does that, but he did, and saved my life."

Both Toby and Winnie accompanied their owners to the awards luncheon.

Answer the following questions:
1. What animals are being honored?
2. What is it that they are being honored for?
3. How old is the male?
4. What did the owner have lodged in her airway?
5. Where were they from?
6. Was he bought at a pet store?
7. Where did he come from?
8. how old was he?
9. What did the male owner do for a living?
10. What was the cause of the obstruction? What was different this time?
11. The other animal's living saving act was what?
12. What was the danger she faced?
13. Was that animal bought at a store?
14. Where did she come from?
15. What organization was awarding the heroic two?
16. Was anyone else in danger when the feline came to their aid?
17. What was his age?
18. How close were they to dying?
19. According to who>
20. Who attended the award ceremony?
A: 1. a Dog and Cat
2. nick-of-time acts
3. two
4. apple
5. Indiana
6. no
7. a garbage bin
8. 4-week-old
9. unknown
10. the skin
11. woke up Cathy
12. carbon monoxide
13. no
14. under a barn
15. the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
16. their son
17. 14
18. minutes
19. The state police
20. Toby and Winnie
Q: Zach Linsky, 11, watches TV for 3 and a half hours a day and plays video games every other day. Zach, a sixth grader in Washington, D. C., is an American. But unlike many kids, he doesn't have a TV, VCR, or computer in his bedroom. He only has a boom box . The survey of 3,155 kids, aged 2 to 18, shows that they spend 5 hours and 29 minutes on average a day using some types of media outside of school, including 2 hours and 46 minutes watching TV, 21 minutes on the computer, 20 minutes playing video games, and 8 minutes on the Internet. The good news: The total includes 44 minutes spent reading. The survey also shows that those aged 2 to 7 spend 3 hours and 9 minutes watching TV every day and shows that 32 percent in that age group have TV sets in their rooms. Among those aged 8 to 18, 21 percent have computers in their rooms, 65 percent have TV sets, and 61 percent say their parents don't stop them from watching TV. Nearly 1 in 4 say they watch more than 5 hours a day. "Kids are living much more lonely lives than ever before," says Kay S. Hytnowitz. "They just disappear into their rooms and spend all of their time with these media."

Answer the following questions:
1. How many American kidswatch more than 5 hours of TV a day
2. what is the average among kids aged 2-7
3. What portion of that group have TV in their bedroom?
4. What portion of 8-18 year olds have a computer in their room?
5. Are kids lives more socially fulfilling these days?
6. why?
7. How oldis Zach Linsky?
8. how much TV does he watch?
9. does he have a TV in his room?
10. A computer?
A: 1. Nearly 1 in 4
2. 3 hours and 9 minutes
3. 32 Percent
4. 21 percent
5. No
6. Spend all of their time with media
7. 11
8. 3 and a half hours a day a
9. No
10. No
Q: Anti-aircraft warfare or counter-air defence is defined by NATO as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action." They include ground-and air-based weapon systems, associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements and passive measures (e.g. barrage balloons). It may be used to protect naval, ground, and air forces in any location. However, for most countries the main effort has tended to be 'homeland defence'. NATO refers to airborne air defence as counter-air and naval air defence as anti-aircraft warfare. Missile defence is an extension of air defence as are initiatives to adapt air defence to the task of intercepting any projectile in flight.

Non-English terms for air defence include the German Flak (Fliegerabwehrkanone, "aircraft defence cannon", also cited as Flugabwehrkanone), whence English flak, and the Russian term Protivovozdushnaya oborona (Cyrillic: ), a literal translation of "anti-air defence", abbreviated as PVO. In Russian the AA systems are called zenitnye (i.e. "pointing to zenith") systems (guns, missiles etc.). In French, air defence is called DCA (Defense contre les aeronefs, "aeronef" being the generic term for all kind of airborne device (airplane, airship, balloon, missile, rocket, etc.)).

Answer the following questions:
1. How is anti-aircraft or counter-air defence defined?
2. Who defined it?
3. How many things are included in that?
4. What is one of those things that is included?
5. What is the main efforts in most countries?
6. What do they call it in France?
7. What about in Germany?
8. What task do they have?
9. What are they referred to as in Russia?
10. How many examples are given as to what it is named in other places?
A:
1. "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action
2. NATO
3. Four
4. ground-and air-based weapon systems
5. homeland defence
6. DCA
7. Flak
8. intercepting any projectile in flight.
9. Protivovozdushnaya oborona
10. Four