input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. What is Bay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform where nearly anyone can trade practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods. Including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes- the list goes on and on

The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still a child, At high school, be became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, He worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill. and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. . Even in the great. com crashes of the late 1990s,abay has gone from strength to strength ,. It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet

eBay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have to do is lake an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and you are in business: the world is your market place. Of course for each item sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold. 1. Who came up with the idea for bay?
2. What it a hobby for him?
3. Where was Peter born?
4. Where did he move?
5. What did he become interested in in high school?
6. What university did peter graduate from?
7. Did Meg Whitman work for Ebay?
8. What was her job title?
9. What can people buy and sell on Ebay?
10. When did the .com crash happen?
11. Did Ebay make it through that time?
12. At what number is Ebay in the most visited list?
13. Does ebay get a percentage of sells?
14. How many items are listed on ebay daily?
15. what year did Peter graduated from College?
numbered_answers: 1. Peter Omidyar
2. Yes
3. Paris
4. Washington
5. computer programming
6. Tuft University
7. Yes
8. CEO
9. connections
10. In the late 1990s
11. Yes
12. One of the ten
13. Yes
14. sixteen million
15. 1988

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER XXVII

THE SPY

Wrayson found himself a few minutes later alone with the Baron, who, with some solemnity, rose and took the chair opposite to him. Conversation between them, however, languished, for the Baron spoke only in monosyllables, and his attitude gave Wrayson the idea that he viewed his presence at the chateau with disfavour. With stiff punctiliousness, he begged Wrayson to try some wonderful Burgundy, and passed a box of cigarettes. He did not, however, open any topic of conversation, and Wrayson, embarrassed in his choice of subjects by the fact that any remark he could make might sound like an attempt at gratifying his curiosity, remained also silent. In a very few minutes the Baron rose.

"You will take another glass of wine, sir?" he asked.

Wrayson rose too with alacrity, and bowed his refusal. They recrossed the great hall and entered the drawing-room. Louise and Madame de Melbain were talking earnestly together in a corner, and from the look that the latter threw at him as they entered, Wrayson was convinced that in some way he was concerned with the subject of their conversation. It was a look deliberate and scrutinizing, in a sense doubtful, and yet not unkindly. Behind it all, Wrayson felt that there was something which he could not understand, there was something of the mystery in those dark sad eyes which seemed to pervade the whole atmosphere of the place and the lives of these people.

Louise rose as he approached and motioned him to take her vacated place. 1. Who is with someone else?
2. Who is he with?
3. Are they alone?
4. What does he do?
5. Did they have a good talk?
6. How so?
7. Why?
8. Did he seem like he wanted him to be there?
9. What gave that impression?
10. What does he offer?
11. Anything else?
12. Did they talk about anything?
13. What happens eventually?
14. Where do they go?
15. What was on the other side?
16. Was anybody in there?
17. Who?
18. Anybody else?
19. What were they doing?
20. What might they have been discussing?
numbered_answers: 1. Wrayson is
2. the Baron
3. Yes
4. rose and took the chair opposite to him
5. No
6. Conversation between them languished
7. the Baron spoke only in monosyllables
8. No
9. his attitude
10. some Burgundy
11. cigarettes
12. No
13. the Baron rose
14. They recrossed the great hall
15. the drawing-room
16. Yes
17. Louise
18. Madame de Melbain
19. talking earnestly together in a corner
20. Wrayson

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Marie Colvin, a veteran correspondent who was killed in Syria last week, died trying to get her shoes so she could escape a shelling attack, her paper reported Sunday.

Colvin, a New York native, worked for London's The Sunday Times.

As is the custom in Syria, she took off her shoes upon entering a building that was serving as a makeshift press center. She was on the ground floor when rockets hit the upper floors, The Sunday Times reported.

Thinking then that the building was a target, Colvin rushed to retrieve her shoes in the hall. A rocket landed just a few yards away, the paper said.

Colvin, 56, was the only British newspaper journalist inside the Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr. She was killed alongside French journalist Remi Ochlik in the attack Wednesday.

Her mother, Rosemarie Colvin, said aid workers have been trying for days to remove her daughter's body from the war-ravaged country.

She added that she believes her daughter was deliberately targeted by Syrian government forces.

"They were first in another house, and the top floors there were blown off," she said. "First (the Syrian forces) rocketed the front of the building," she said, fueling suspicion that the attack against a makeshift media center where Colvin and Ochlik were holed up was no accident.

The Syrian government was not immediately available for comment.

The day before she was killed, Colvin had given media interviews to networks like ITN and CNN about the ongoing clashes in Homs, and about a child who was killed in the city. 1. Where did Colvin work?
2. Was she born in London?
3. Where, then?
4. What was her job title?
5. Which other journalist was killed at the same time?
6. On what day did it occur?
7. How old was Colvin?
8. In what country did the attack occur?
9. What was Colvin reaching for when the rocket landed?
10. How far away from Colvin did it make contact?
11. Why wasn't she wearing her shoes?
12. What type of building was she in?
13. Who is Marie Colvin's mother?
14. Does she believe the attack was targeted?
15. By who?
16. Was Marie bombed in another location?
17. Did the Syrian government defend themselves to the press?
18. Has Colvin's body been returned to her family?
19. Who is working on that effort?
20. What had Colvin been reporting on before her death?
numbered_answers:
1. The Sunday Times
2. no
3. New York
4. veteran correspondent
5. Remi Ochlik
6. Wednesday
7. 56
8. Syria
9. her shoes
10. few yards
11. custom in Syria
12. makeshift press center
13. Rosemarie Colvin
14. yes
15. Syrian government forces
16. No
17. no
18. No
19. aid workers
20. ongoing clashes in Homs, and about a child who was killed in the city.