question: Facebook is an American for-profit corporation and an online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California. The Facebook website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.

The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students; however, later they expanded it to higher education institutions in the Boston area, the Ivy League schools, and Stanford University. Facebook gradually added support for students at various other universities, and eventually to high school students as well. Since 2006, anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old has been allowed to become a registered user of Facebook, though variations exist in the minimum age requirement, depending on applicable local laws. The Facebook name comes from the face book directories often given to United States university students.

Facebook may be accessed by a large range of desktops, laptops, tablet computers, and smartphones over the Internet and mobile networks. After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile indicating their name, occupation, schools attended and so on. Users can add other users as "friends", exchange messages, post status updates and digital photos, share digital videos and links, use various software applications ("apps"), and receive notifications when others update their profiles or make posts. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups organized by workplace, school, hobbies or other topics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". In groups, editors can pin posts to top. Additionally, users can complain about or block unpleasant people. Because of the large volume of data that users submit to the service, Facebook has come under scrutiny for its privacy policies. Facebook makes most of its revenue from advertisements which appear onscreen, marketing access for its customers to its users and offering highly selective advertising opportunities.
1. Who were the only people on Facebook in the beginning?
2. Were other Ivy League universities allowed in soon after?
3. What city's schools were also allowed on the site?
4. What's the youngest age, theoretically, that's allowed there?
5. Who are face books presented to?
6. Can you log onto Facebook from a smartphone?
7. How about a tablet?
8. When you add other people on that platform, what are they then called?
9. Can they then send a large variety of media back and forth to each other?
10. Does the platform notify it's users when a friend updates their status?
11. What kind of member groups can users join?
12. Would a school's group count as one?
13. What's another category?
14. Can members classify their friends and put them on separate lists?
15. How does Facebook earn money?
16. Is it a for-profit business?
17. Where would you find their headquarters?
18. When was the website started?
19. Where did the founder attend university?
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answer: 1. Harvard students
2. yes
3. Boston
4. 13
5. United States university students
6. yes
7. yes
8. "friends"
9. yes
10. yes
11. common-interest groups
12. yes
13. workplace groups
14. yes
15. advertisements
16. yes
17. Menlo Park, California
18. February 4, 2004
19. Harvard

question: Recently, China Dream has been the subject of a public topic. Although it is quite common for Chinese people to dream of a developed China, most people also have their own dreams. I interviewed several young Chinese students with higher US educational backgrounds. They all had their own dreams for their native country. Fred Wang, an MBA student in the US, said, "I dream of equal chance for the young in China. Equality means all young people can compete fairly, based on the rule-of-law no matter whether they are rich or poor." Yujie Zhao, another MBA student in California, said, "I dream of having the best education for my children so they will not lose at the starting line, and I dream of being able to take good care of my parents after they return home from work." Yiqiong Zhang, an MBA graduate from the US, shared her dreams. "I have a dream which I have been holding for many years, that is after working hard for about 20 to 25 years, I can have enough money to build and manage a bookstore or a flower shop. Besides working hard, I am able to enjoy life, to play the piano, to hike and to enjoy a two-month-long vacation every year. This may be a common dream among young Chinese students." There is no doubt that all of these young students have their own China Dream. They all love chasing their dreams. The beautiful China Dream requires everyone's hard work. Everyone should work hard to make their dreams come true.
1. Who was interviewed for this story?
2. Where did they study?
3. What were they asked about?
4. What did Fred Wang hope for?
5. How did he definite equality?
6. What did Yujie Zhao's dream involve?
7. For whom?
8. What does she want for her parents?
9. What does Yiqiong Zhang want to do after working?
10. How long will he work first?
11. How will he enjoy life?
12. What else?
13. Does he want to take holidays?
14. For how long?
15. How often?
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answer: 1. Chinese students.
2. In the US.
3. Their dreams for China.
4. Equal chances.
5. As competing fairly.
6. Best education.
7. Her children.
8. To take good care of them.
9. Build and manage a bookstore or a flower shop.
10. 20 to 25 years.
11. Play the piano.
12. Hike.
13. Yes.
14. Two-month-long.
15. Every year.

question: Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- Three top allies of Ivory Coast's former president, Laurent Gbagbo, have been arrested in less than a week, raising political tension in the West African nation, where the nation's army has been hit by weeks of attacks.

Laurent Akoun, general secretary of the Front Populaire Ivoirien, Ivory Coast's former ruling party, was arrested on Sunday in Adzope, 100 kilometers east of Abidjan, the nation's economic capital and most populous city, party officials said.

Akoun was arrested for having defamed President Alassane Ouattara during a recent meeting with some of the party's members and supporters in an Abidjan cafe, said Sylvain Miaka Oureto, the party's leader. He also is accused of harming state security because of what he said during the meeting, Oureto said.

He said Akoun was still in custody Monday evening.

Akoun, the current deputy chief of the party, was heading to a party rally when the nation's gendarmerie -- a paramilitary force -- arrested him and transferred him to Abidjan, said Augustin Guehoun, the head of communication for the party.

His arrest follows that of two former Gbagbo Cabinet ministers, one of them in Ghana, where he had sought refuge.

Oureto said the series of arrests against the party's high-ranking officials is intended to "behead the Front Populaire Ivoirien." He said the government is "man hunting" against the leaders of the party.

At least seven attacks have been carried out since August 5 by unidentified gunmen against the Forces Republicaines de Cote d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast's national army. At least 17 people were killed in the attacks, including 10 Ivorian soldiers.
1. Who is Ivory Coast's former president?
2. Who was arrested?
3. In what time frame?
4. Where is the Ivory Coast?
5. Who is Laurent Akoun?
6. What is Front Populaire Ivoirien? (no worries)
7. When was she arrested?
8. Where?
9. Where is Abidjan?
10. What is Abidjan?
11. Was the party meeting in a cafe?
12. In what city?
13. Who is the party's leader?
14. Is Akoun still in custody?
15. Who else was arrested?
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answer:
1. Laurent Gbagbo
2. Three top allies.
3. Less than a week
4. West African
5. Laurent Akoun, general secretary of the Front Populaire Ivoirien
6. Ivory Coast's former ruling party.
7. Sunday
8. In Adzope
9. Ivory Coast
10. Abidjan, Ivory Coast
11. Yes.
12. Abidjan
13. Alassane Ouattara
14. Yes
15. Two former Gbagbo Cabinet ministers