Q: In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue restaurant, then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this small selection they added one new idea: quick service,no waiters or waitresses, and no tips.

Their hamburgers were sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity , for the brothers had developed a strict routine for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks' sticking to their routine. Their new drive-in became surprisingly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundred during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.

Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954 when he was selling milkshake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the special attraction of the brothers' fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise other copies of their restaurants. The agreement included the right to duplicate the menu, the equipment, even their red and white buildings the golden arches .

Today McDonald's is really a household name. In 1976, McDonald's had over$1 billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most surprising successes in modern American business history.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who started a drive-in business?
2. What year did this happen?
3. And where?
4. Had they owned a business before?
5. How much were the burgers sold for?
6. How much if you wanted cheese?
7. Was the menu shortened?
8. What did they offer on the new menu?
9. Did they take tips?
10. What was the name of the salesperson who met them?
11. When did they meet?
12. What was he selling at the time?
13. How many sales did McDonald's have in the 1970's?
14. Did their food have a uniformity about it?
15. Before they met Ray, how many restaurants had they opened?
16. Is McDonald's well known today?
17. Was the new drive in more popular for lunch or dinner?
A: 1. Mac and Dick McDonald
2. 1939
3. San Bernardino, California
4. Yes
5. fifteen cents
6. four cents
7. Yes
8. French fries, hamburgers, and sodas
9. no
10. Ray Kroc
11. 1954
12. milkshake-mixing machines
13. $1 billion
14. Yes
15. ten
16. Yes
17. lunch
Q: CHAPTER LXXV

In the meantime, Lady Roehampton was paying her farewell visit to her former pupil. They were alone, and Adriana was hanging on her neck and weeping.

"We were so happy," she murmured.

"And are so happy, and will be," said Myra.

"I feel I shall never be happy again," sighed Adriana.

"You deserve to be the happiest of human beings, and you will be."

"Never, never!"

Lady Roehampton could say no more; she pressed her friend to her heart, and left the room in silence.

When she arrived at her hotel, her brother was leaving the house. His countenance was disquieted; he did not greet her with that mantling sunniness of aspect which was natural to him when they met.

"I have made all my farewells," she said; "and how have you been getting on?" And she invited him to re-enter the hotel.

"I am ready to depart at this moment," he said somewhat fiercely, "and was only thinking how I could extricate myself from that horrible dinner to-day at the Count of Ferroll's."

"Well, that is not difficult," said Myra; "you can write a note here if you like, at once. I think you must have seen quite enough of the Count of Ferroll and his friends."

Endymion sat down at the table, and announced his intended non-appearance at the Count's dinner, for it could not be called an excuse. When he had finished, his sister said--

"Do you know, we were nearly having a travelling companion to-morrow?"

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was saying goodbye?
2. To who?
3. What was the pupil's name?
4. Were there a lot of people around?
5. Does it seem like Adriana is excited to leave?
6. What does she say about leaving?
7. Who was leaving as the Lady was arriving home?
8. Was he happy to see her?
9. What is the Lady's first name?
10. Where did he sit down?
A: 1. Lady Roehampton
2. To her former pupil.
3. Adriana
4. No
5. No
6. She will never be happy again
7. Her brother
8. No
9. Myra
10. At the table
Q: CNN -- Elton John may be famous for smash hits such as "Tiny Dancer" and scores for films such as "The Lion King," but he's also made a name for himself in HIV/AIDS activism.

Advances in treatments for HIV/AIDS have led to some people taking more risks, Elton John says.

The singer-songwriter established the Elton John AIDS Foundation in the United States and the United Kingdom to support HIV prevention programs, efforts to eliminate stigma and discrimination associated with the disease, and care and support services for people living with the condition. The foundation has raised more than $150 million. John has said that Ryan White, an Indiana teenager who died of HIV/AIDS in 1990, inspired him to create this foundation.

John sat down with CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta before speaking Tuesday at the Bio International Convention in Atlanta, Georgia. Here is an edited transcript.

CNN: What are you doing here today?

Elton John: I'm doing a speech about the situation with AIDS in America basically, and how we need to address what's going on. We seem to be falling a little behind in America.

I find this disease very cyclical. Every 10 years or so, after we spend a lot of money trying to educate people -- a new generation of people -- and we tell them to have safe sex and to abstain sometimes but have safe sex, wear condoms, we find that after 10 years another whole group of people come along. And we have to start all over again, which is really, really frustrating because it takes money for education. And we find that if we could get into the schools at a grass-roots levels, which we do in places like Africa where we get to kids at a young age and we tell them about preventive measures for not getting HIV, we find the success rate is tremendous. Watch more of Dr. Gupta's interview with Elton John "

Answer the following questions:
1. Who did Dr. Sanjay Gupta interview?
2. About what?
3. Why in America?
4. Is Elton an AIDS activist?
5. What has he done?
6. Where?
7. How much money has it raised?
8. What exactly does it do?
9. Howso?
10. Where do they do that?
11. Does it help?
12. What else does the foundation do?
13. How do they do that?
14. Does the foundation offer support for people?
15. Who?
16. What inspired Elton to start the program?
17. Who was that?
18. When did he die?
19. What does Dr. Sanjay Gupta do?
20. How often Does Elton see the need to educate people?
A:
1. Elton John
2. AIDS in America
3. We seem to be falling a little behind in America.
4. yes
5. established the Elton John AIDS Foundation
6. in the United States and the United Kingdom
7. more than $150 million.
8. support HIV prevention programs
9. get into the schools at a grass-roots levels, tell them about preventive measures
10. places like Africa
11. yes
12. efforts to eliminate stigma and discrimination associated with the disease,
13. unknown
14. yes
15. for people living with the condition.
16. Ryan White
17. an Indiana teenager who died of HIV/AIDS
18. 1990
19. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent
20. Every 10 years or so