Q: Maybe you've heard of many musical bands, but have you heard of Little Big Town, a country musical group? There are four members in this band, Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook and Phillip Sweet. They had a hard time when they began their band at first, but they didn't give up. Now it becomes very popular. "We take care of each other and we take care of the music," Karen Fairchild once said after one of their shows. As a fan of this band, I once had a chance to hang out with the members of Little Big Town. We talked about their hard beginning. At that time, they even didn't have their own stage. Fairchild also told me how the four of them were together when they were in trouble. Not only did they stand together on stage but also in their daily life. For example, they were right there when Phillip Sweet was caring for his daughter for the first time. They encouraged Kimberly Schlapman when they found her husband _ . At that time Kimberly was very sad to lose her husband. "When we have lived such a hard life together, it bonds us tightly," Phillip Sweet said. "We find true happiness is the joy of doing what we do for a living. We love the hard beginning. We also love the wonderful future."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who did the author get to hang out with?
2. How many people are in the band?
3. What's the first one's name?
4. The second?
5. The third?
6. The fourth?
7. What sort of genre do they sing?
8. Did they have an easy start?
9. What were they missing at first?
10. How did they get through their rough start?
11. Did one of them have a son?
12. What do they say true pleasure is?
13. Are they friends or just tolerate each other?
14. What did one of them grieve for that was hard?
15. What was his name?
A: 1. the members of Little Big Town
2. Four
3. Karen Fairchild
4. Kimberly Schlapman
5. Jimi Westbrook
6. Phillip Sweet
7. country
8. no
9. A stage
10. Stood together
11. No
12. doing what they do for a living
13. Friends
14. Losing a husband
15. Phillip
Q: (CNN)Now comes the hard part for Maria Sharapova. Having reached the Australian Open final, she'll have to overcome longtime nemesis Serena Williams.

To utter that Sharapova is the underdog Saturday is like saying Roger Federer is a decent player. World No. 1 Williams leads the second-ranked Sharapova 16-2 in their rivalry -- but has won 15 matches in a row.

During that streak, she has conceded three sets to the Russian.

If that's not enough, Williams has never lost a semifinal or final in Melbourne, her record improving to 11-0 after topping fellow American Madison Keys 7-6 (5) 6-2 Thursday in the semifinals.

Sharapova, meanwhile, has failed to win a major outside Roland Garros in seven years.

But all the imposing statistics don't appear to be fazing the ever steely Sharapova, who last downed Williams at the year-end championships in 2004.

"I think my confidence should be pretty high going into a final of a grand slam no matter who I'm facing, and whether I've had a terrible record against someone, it doesn't matter," Sharapova, a 6-3 6-2 winner over compatriot Ekaterina Makarova Thursday, told reporters.

"I got there for a reason. I belong in that spot. I will do everything I can to get the title."

Some would say, too, that Sharapova has fate on her side.

She was almost knocked out in the second round, needing to save a pair of match points against qualifier Alexandra Panova. And only last year Li Na took advantage of her second chance in Melbourne, fending off a match point in the third round before going on to capture a second grand slam title a week later.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who has reached the Australian Open Final?
2. Who will she have to overcome?
3. Have they been rivals for a long time?
4. Who is number 1 in the world?
5. Who is ranked second?
6. How many matches has Williams won against Sharapova?
7. How many in a row?
8. How many has she lost against Sharapova?
9. How many sets has she conceded?
10. What nationality is Sharapova?
11. Where has Williams never lost a final?
12. Who did she beat to make her record 11-0?
13. What has Sharapova failed to do?
14. What would some say she has on her side?
15. Who did Sharapova beat on Thursday?
16. What will she do to get the title?
17. What year did she last beat Williams?
18. What round was she nearly knocked out?
19. Against who?
20. What happened only last year?
A: 1. Maria Sharapova
2. Serena Williams
3. yes
4. Serena Williams
5. second
6. 16
7. 15
8. Two
9. Three
10. Russian
11. Melbourne
12. Madison Keys
13. failed to win a major outside Roland Garros in seven years
14. fate
15. Ekaterina Makarova
16. everything she can
17. 2004
18. in the second round
19. Alexandra Panova
20. Li Na took advantage of her second chance in Melbourne
Q: CHAPTER XLVII

How the Bride Was Received, and Who Were Asked to the Wedding

And thus after all did Frank perform his great duty; he did marry money; or rather, as the wedding has not yet taken place, and is, indeed, as yet hardly talked of, we should more properly say that he had engaged himself to marry money. And then, such a quantity of money! The Scatcherd wealth greatly exceeded the Dunstable wealth; so that our hero may be looked on as having performed his duties in a manner deserving the very highest commendation from all classes of the de Courcy connexion.

And he received it. But that was nothing. That _he_ should be feted by the de Courcys and Greshams, now that he was about to do his duty by his family in so exemplary a manner: that he should be patted on the back, now that he no longer meditated that vile crime which had been so abhorrent to his mother's soul; this was only natural; this is hardly worthy of remark. But there was another to be feted, another person to be made a personage, another blessed human mortal about to do her duty by the family of Gresham in a manner that deserved, and should receive, Lady Arabella's warmest caresses.

Dear Mary! It was, indeed, not singular that she should be prepared to act so well, seeing that in early youth she had had the advantage of an education in the Greshamsbury nursery; but not on that account was it the less fitting that her virtue should be acknowledged, eulogised, nay, all but worshipped.

Answer the following questions:
1. what school did she go to?
2. is Frank marrying someone poor?
3. who was Frank "feted" by?
4. what was abhorrent to his mother's soul?
5. Is he marry Lady Arabella you think?
6. is Mary her first name?
7. who is richer than Dunstable?
8. is he married yet?
9. what should be done about Mary's virtue?
10. what is Frank's family name?
11. is there a lot of talk about the wedding?
12. why is he being called hero?
13. what had the good education help Mary with?
14. did Frank deserve a pat on the back?
A:
1. the Greshamsbury nursery
2. no
3. the de Courcys and Greshams
4. that vile crime
5. yes
6. yes
7. Scatcherd
8. no
9. it should be acknowledged, eulogised, nay, all but worshipped
10. de Courcy
11. no
12. he had engaged himself to marry money
13. she acts so well
14. yes