Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Steve Jobs, the designer of Apple Computer, wasn't smart when he was at school. At that time, he was not a good student and he always made trouble with his schoolmates. Then he dropped out . But he was full of new ideas. After he left college, Steve Jobs worked as a video game designer. He worked there for only several months and then he went to India. He hoped that the trip would give him some new ideas and give him a change in life. Steve Jobs lived on a farm in California for a year after he returned from India. In 1975, he began to make a new type of computer. He designed the Apple computer with his friend . He chose the name"Apple"just because it could help him to remember a happy summer he once spent in an apple tree garden. His Apple computer was such a great success that Steve Jobs soon became famous all over the world. ,.

1. Who went to India?
2. why did he go there?
3. where did he live after he got back from there?
4. on a what?
5. for how long?
6. what new kind of thing did he create?
7. what year did he start this?
8. did he do it alone?
9. with who then?
10. what did he call the new thing?
11. why that name?
12. doing what?
13. was he a good or bad student?
14. was he one of the smarter kids?
15. did he misbehave?
16. with whom did he cause issues?
17. did he complete school?
18. what was he full of?
19. what did he do after leaving university?
20. how long did he work there?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Steve Jobs
2. To get some new ideas and give him a change in life.
3. California
4. a farm
5. for a year
6. computer
7. 1975
8. no
9. with his friend
10. "Apple"
11. because it could help him to remember a happy summer
12. being in an apple tree garden
13. bad
14. no
15. yes
16. his schoolmates
17. no
18. new ideas
19. He worked as a video game designer
20. several months

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

The majority of astronauts from America have been men. At the start of the space programme there was strong resistance from some people against having women in space. However, some women were very keen to become astronauts and in the end they were successful. In 1978, NASA began the first training programme for women astronauts.

Judy Resnick and Christa McAuliffe were both astronauts and they were both women, but in many other ways they were very different. Both of them were on Flight STS-5L-L. Judy Resnick was born in 1949 and studied engineering at university and went on to obtain a PhD in 1977. She was a member of the first group of women selected for astronaut training in 1978, and in 1984, she became the second woman in space. During that flight, she helped to launch three new satellites and she carried out a programme of research. She was, in many ways, a professional astronaut whose whole life was devoted to space travel.

Christa McAuliffe was born in 1948 and she was an astronaut almost by accident. In 1984, NASA decided to find a teacher who could accompany astronauts into space. They hoped that she would be able to communicate with students from space and encourage every one of them to be interested in space travel. Christa was a secondary teacher in history and social studies. She was a gifted teacher and she was selected from over 11,000 applicants to go on flight STS-51-L. She was also a very good communicator and she immediately established a very good relationship with the news media(radio, television and newspapers). It was partly because of this that there was a great deal of interest and excitement about the flight. Thousands of students in schools and universities all around the country were looking forward to communicating with Christa in space. Millions of people were watching her flight with great interest. It is partly because of the excitement over McAuliffe's place in the flight that the disaster in 1986 had such an effect on people.

1. what gender are most atronauts
2. were people against women being in it
3. did they do it anyway
4. were they successful
5. what year did their training begin
6. who were two women astronauts
7. what flight were they on
8. who studied engineering
9. did she ever get to go to space
10. was she the first or second woman
11. what did she help launch
12. what was her life devoted to
13. who was born in 1948
14. what year did NASA find her
15. why did they want a teacher
16. what did she teach
17. how many people applied for it
18. did she make people excited about the flight
19. what year was the disaster

Numbered answers:

A: 1. men
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. 1978
6. Judy Resnick and Christa McAuliffe
7. STS-5L-L
8. Judy Resnick
9. Yes
10. second
11. three new satellites
12. space travel.
13. Christa McAuliffe
14. 1984
15. They hoped that she would be able to communicate with students from space and encourage every one of them to be interested in space travel.
16. history and social studies.
17. 11,000
18. Yes
19. 1986

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Chapter 9 NEW YEAR'S CALLS

"Now I'm going to turn over a new leaf, as I promised. I wonder what I shall find on the next page?" said Rose, coming down on New Year's morning with a serious face and a thick letter in her hand.

"Tired of frivolity, my dear?" asked her uncle, pausing in his walk up and down the hall to glance at her with a quick, bright look she liked to bring into his eyes.

"No, sir, and that's the sad part of it, but I've made up my mind to stop while I can because I'm sure it is not good for me. I've had some very sober thoughts lately, for since my Phebe went away I've had no heart for gaiety, so it is a good place to stop and make a fresh start," answered Rose, taking his arm and walking on with him.

"An excellent time! Now, how are you going to fill the aching void?" he asked, well pleased.

"By trying to be as unselfish, brave, and good as she is." And Rose held the letter against her bosom with a tender touch, for Phebe's strength had inspired her with a desire to be as self-reliant. "I'm going to set about living in earnest, as she has; though I think it will be harder for me than for her, because she stands alone and has a career marked out for her. I'm nothing but a commonplace sort of girl, with no end of relations to be consulted every time I wink and a dreadful fortune hanging like a millstone round my neck to weigh me down if I try to fly. It is a hard case, Uncle, and I get low in my mind when I think about it," sighed Rose, oppressed with her blessings.

1. Who was carrying a letter?
2. Does she seem happy?
3. Why?
4. For whom?
5. Where is she?
6. To whom Rose is telling her worries?
7. Does she consider herself a common person?
8. What is her opinion about Phebe?
9. Who she think would be harder to handle this situation?
10. How she would like to be to handle this?
11. Is Phebe a career oriented person?
12. Can we assume that the reason for her leaving?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Rose
2. no
3. She'd had some sobering thoughts.
4. Phebe
5. away
6. her uncle
7. yes
8. she's inspired
9. it would be harder for her
10. by trying to be as unselfish, brave, and good as she is
11. yes
12. yes