input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Did you watch the magic shows played by Liu Qian from Taiwan in the 2009 CCTV Spring Festival Gala ? They attracted great attention and wide interests of the audience . During the gala, Liu mangaged to drop a coin into a glass which was placed upside down and _ a finger ring into an egg. The two magic shows were so successful that everyone is now mad about him and all want to know how to play magic tricks. "I saw the surprise on everyone's face. It was cool, "Liu said. However, you may not believe that Liu didn't go to any magic school. He just learned by himself. When Liu was seven, he saw a coin trick in a big store. At that moment Liu decided to learn magic. He worked hard at it. He practiced hard to improve his skills. Then one day he was able to put on a show for his class. After years of hard work, now Liu is a great magician. But he isn't satisfied with what he has got and keeps on trying every day. He may spend three years working out a new show. 1. what type of show was this?
2. do people like him?
3. what was his name?
4. what insipred him?
5. how old was he then?
6. is he happy with his skills now?
7. does he do anything to improve?
8. does it take a while to work out a new show?
9. how long?
10. where has he played?
11. this year?
12. which one?
13. what did he drop into the glass?
14. was the glass upright?
15. did he do 5 shows there?
16. how many?
17. how did Liu feel about it?
18. why?
19. Did he have a lot of formal training?
20. any?
numbered_answers: 1. magic
2. yes
3. Liu Qian
4. a coin trick in a big store
5. seven
6. not yet - still improving
7. keeps on trying every day
8. yes
9. three years
10. CCTV Spring Festival Gala
11. no
12. 2009
13. coin
14. no
15. no
16. two
17. cool
18. surprise on everyone's face
19. no
20. none - by himself

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

BACK AT ASHTON

The three Rovers listened in astonishment to what the auto-stage driver had to say concerning the sudden disappearance of Blackie Crowden.

"Then he must have jumped from the stage while you were running," remarked Dick.

"That's just what he did do, mister. And he took some chances, too, believe me, for I wasn't runnin' at less than twenty miles an hour."

"Did he have any baggage with him?" questioned Tom.

"He had a small handbag, that's all."

"Would you remember the place where he jumped off?" came from Sam, eagerly.

"Yes, it was on the road back of here--just before you turn into this highway."

"You mean the road that was so thick with dust?" remarked Tom.

"That's the place. He jumped off at a spot where the bushes are pretty thick, and there are three trees standin' close together just back of the bushes."

"I think I know that place," said Dick. "There is a small white cottage on the hillside just behind it."

"You've struck it," answered the stage driver. "I reckon as how he was goin' to call on somebody at the cottage. But why he didn't ask me to stop is a mystery. Why! he might have broken a leg gettin' off that way."

"That man is a criminal, and he did it to throw you off his track," announced Sam. "Do you know what I think?" he continued to his brothers. "I think Blackie Crowden must have gotten on to the fact that we were at Fernwood, and made up his mind to clear out as soon as possible. Then he got afraid that we might question folks, including this stage driver, and so jumped from the auto-stage to throw us off his trail, provided we should follow the stage." 1. Who is being questioned?
2. Who may be a criminal?
3. How are the people asking questions related?
4. What dangerous stunt did Blackie Crowden do?
5. Off what?
6. How fast was it going?
7. Did he take anything with him?
8. Did he jump in to plain grass?
9. What vegetation was there?
10. What structure was near the place he jumped?
11. Would the driver have stopped if he had been asked to?
12. Was Blackie Crowden fleeing when he left Fernwood?
13. Who from?
14. What did the driver think Blackie Crowden was going to do at the cottage?
15. Do the brother think Blackie Crowden is law abiding?
16. How many people are questioning the driver?
17. What is their last name?
numbered_answers: 1. the stage driver.
2. Blackie Crw=owden
3. they are brothers.
4. He jumped off
5. the stage
6. not less than twenty miles an hour.
7. yes, a small handbag
8. no
9. bushes and trees
10. a small white cottage
11. yes
12. yes
13. the brothers.
14. call on somebody at the cottage.
15. no
16. three
17. Rover

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: "Olympische Sommerspiele 1936"), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event that was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain, on 26 April 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona (two years before the Nazis came to power). It marked the second and final time the International Olympic Committee gathered to vote in a city that was bidding to host those Games.

To outdo the Los Angeles games of 1932, Adolf Hitler had built a new 100,000-seat track and field stadium, six gymnasiums, and many other smaller arenas. The games were the first to be televised, and radio broadcasts reached 41 countries. Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl was commissioned by the German Olympic Committee to film the Games for $7 million. Her film, titled "Olympia", pioneered many of the techniques now common in the filming of sports.

Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler saw the Games as an opportunity to promote his government and ideals of racial supremacy and antisemitism, and the official Nazi party paper, the "Volkischer Beobachter", wrote in the strongest terms that Jews should not be allowed to participate in the Games. When threatened with a boycott of the Games by other nations, Hitler appeared to allow athletes of other ethnicities from other countries to participate. However German Jewish athletes were barred or prevented from taking part by a variety of methods and Jewish athletes from other countries (notably the US) seem to have been side-lined in order not to offend the Nazi government. 1. How many times did the IOC take the vote in a country hoping to be the host?
2. When was they last time?
3. Where was the vote held?
4. Who won the vote
5. Who lost?
6. Which games were they voting on?
7. Where was the last one held?
8. Did Germany use an old building for the games?
9. Who recorded the event?
10. Did she get paid?
11. How much?
12. Who paid her?
13. What did she call the movie?
14. Do people still use her methods?
15. To record what?
16. Who was going to boycott?
17. Who were they boycotting for?
18. Who was not allowed in the games?
19. What about Jews in the US?
20. Why/
numbered_answers:
1. twice
2. on 26 April 1931
3. in Barcelona
4. Berlin
5. Barcelona, Spain
6. The 1936 Summer Olympics
7. Los Angeles
8. no
9. Leni Riefenstahl
10. yes
11. $7 million
12. the German Olympic Committee
13. Olympia
14. yes
15. sports
16. other nations
17. Jews
18. German Jewish athletes
19. they were side-lined
20. to not offend the Nazi government