question: (CNN) -- Educators and policymakers have long dreamed of providing universal, low cost, first-class higher education. Their wish may come true soon thanks to an unlikely source: Silicon Valley.

The mecca of the technology universe is in the process of revolutionizing higher education in a way that educators, colleges and universities cannot, or will not.

One of the men responsible for what may be an Athens-like renaissance is Sebastian Thrun, Google's vice president and pioneer in artificial intelligence and robotics. Known in science circles for his engineering feats -- like Stanley, the self-driving car -- Thrun is using his technological prowess to make quality higher education available to the world. I recently interviewed him on my radio show, "Morning In America."

Last year, while teaching a graduate level artificial intelligence class at Stanford University, Thrun lamented that his course could only reach 200 students in the suburbs of Palo Alto. So, he decided to offer his own free online class, with the same homework, quizzes and tests that he gives to Stanford students.

He announced the proposal with a single e-mail. Before he knew it, he had a flood of takers. "Usually I reach about 200 students and now I reach 160,000," said Thrun incredulously. "In my entire life of education I didn't have as much an impact on people as I had in these two months."

By utilizing online videos and educational resources, Thrun's class was being accessed by students from all corners of the world. In fact, the students themselves translated the class for free from English into 44 languages.
1. What location did the innovation in the article come from?
2. And what field is the innovation in?
3. Who was interviewed by the writer?
4. What's his job?
5. Is he famous for anything else?
6. Like what?
7. What is Stanley?
8. What show was the interview on?
9. Is that a TV show?
10. What kind then?
11. Where does Thrun teach?
12. What is his course about?
13. Is it for undergraduates?
14. How many students at the university could take the course?
15. Where is the university located?
16. What did Thrun do to change the situation?
17. How many students can take it now?
18. How did the tell people about the idea?
19. How long has he been giving the course online?
20. How many languages could students take the course in?
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answer: 1. Silicon Valley
2. education
3. Sebastian Thurn
4. Google's vice president
5. yes
6. Stanley
7. a self-driving ca
8. Morning In America
9. no
10. a radio show
11. Stanford University
12. artificial intelligence
13. no
14. 200
15. Palo Alto
16. decided to give online class
17. 160,000
18. e-mail
19. unknown
20. 45

question: One morning a girl named Ashely woke up before her Mom and Dad and started watching TV. Once her parents woke up, everybody got dressed to go food shopping for the week. Food shopping was one of Ashley's favorite things to do. The family got to the grocery store and grabbed a shopping cart. The first foods they ran into were the fruits. Ashley ran to pick her favorite fruit, apples, while her parents went and got other things that they needed, like the sour lemons. As the family kept walking through the grocery store Ashley begged for some candy that she saw, but the other things her parents bought were eggs, milk and bread. After all of the food was picked out, the family went up to the check-out line to pay for their food. Ashley never liked the check-out line, as it always took too long, but today was different. The checkout lady, Sarah, was extra nice to her and as she was waiting for her parents to pay, Ashley's father picked out a candy for her to have. It was her favorite, chocolate! Ashley was so excited that she thanked her parents the whole ride home, and even said she would make breakfast. When the family got home that afternoon and the food was in the house, the whole family made their lunch of eggs and toast together.
1. When did Ashely wake up?
2. When did she get dressed?
3. Where did they go then?
4. What is one of her favorite things to do?
5. What did she beg for at the store?
6. What did her parents buy instead?
7. Why didn't she like the check out line?
8. Who was quite friendly to her when they were checking out?
9. What did her dad pick out for her?
10. and what was it made of?
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answer: 1. before her Mom and Dad and started watching TV
2. Once her parents woke up
3. to the grocery store
4. Food shopping
5. candy
6. eggs, milk and bread
7. it always took too long
8. The checkout lady, Sarah
9. a candy for her
10. chocolate

question: Many early 19th-century neoclassical architects were influenced by the drawings and projects of Etienne-Louis Boullee and Claude Nicolas Ledoux. The many graphite drawings of Boullee and his students depict spare geometrical architecture that emulates the eternality of the universe. There are links between Boullee's ideas and Edmund Burke's conception of the sublime. Ledoux addressed the concept of architectural character, maintaining that a building should immediately communicate its function to the viewer: taken literally such ideas give rise to "architecture parlante".

The baroque style had never truly been to the English taste. Four influential books were published in the first quarter of the 18th century which highlighted the simplicity and purity of classical architecture: Vitruvius Britannicus (Colen Campbell 1715), Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (1715), De Re Aedificatoria (1726) and The Designs of Inigo Jones... with Some Additional Designs (1727). The most popular was the four-volume Vitruvius Britannicus by Colen Campbell. The book contained architectural prints of famous British buildings that had been inspired by the great architects from Vitruvius to Palladio. At first the book mainly featured the work of Inigo Jones, but the later tomes contained drawings and plans by Campbell and other 18th-century architects. Palladian architecture became well established in 18th-century Britain.
1. What didn't the English like?
2. Who influenced their architecture?
3. What was written about British architecture?
4. Who wrote that?
5. When?
6. Was it popular?
7. It mostly contained whose architecture?
8. How many architects gave ideas to the 1800s?
9. What type did they influence?
10. Whose thoughts are compared to Edmund Burke's?
11. What idea are they compared to?
12. What did he use to draw?
13. Did he think the world would end?
14. What did the other architect think?
15. How quickly should it?
16. What is a term for that?
17. How many important books were written about English architecture?
18. When?
19. Which one was last?
20. What style of architecture became popular in England?
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answer:
1. baroque style
2. by Etienne-Louis Boullee and Claude Nicolas Ledoux.
3. Vitruvius Britannicus
4. Colen Campbell
5. in 1715
6. it was most popular
7. Vitruvius
8. possibly two
9. neoclassical architects
10. Boullee's
11. conception of the sublime
12. spare geometrical architecture
13. no
14. that a building communicates its function
15. immediately
16. "architecture parlante"
17. Four
18. the 18th century
19. The Designs of Inigo Jones
20. Palladian architecture