Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Good evening, everyone! Let's talk about some of the new and the old everyday shows. The news is on Channel Six from 6:00 to 7:00 every evening. Johnson has been reading the news for many years. He and his group always do their job well. The same channel is also good for late night watching. At 11:30 every night, Ted talks with famous people on this 90-minute show Night Time. He always has interesting people on. This week, three movie stars are going to talk about their new movies. In the afternoon, Channel Eleven has a good children's show The Children's Room at 3:30. This show has interesting cartoons. They keep children happy and entertained for hours. Channel Three has the best game shows. They ask some interesting questions and give away a lot of money and gifts. It's really a good way to learn about the world in the game shows.
1. What is on at night after 11pm?
2. What is on Channel Six?
3. Which channel has cartoons?
4. At what time?
5. Where can you watch game shows?
6. Are they educational?
7. Who reads the news?
8. Who are the guests on Night Time this week?
9. What are they going to discuss?
10. Who is the host?
11. What time does the show start?
12. How long is it?
13. What night is it on?
14. Is Johnson new at channel six?
15. How long has he been doing his job?
16. What do people win on the game shows?
17. Which channel has shows for kids?
18. Any show in particular?
19. What time does it aire?

Numbered answers:
1. Night Time
2. The news
3. Channel Eleven
4. 3:30
5. Channel Three
6. yes
7. Johnson
8. 3 movie stars
9. their new movies
10. Ted
11. At 11:30
12. 90-minutes
13. every night
14. no
15. many years
16. money and gifts
17. Channel Eleven
18. The Children's Room
19. 3:30.

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER XI

"My dears," Lady Amesbury said, as she stood surrounded by her guests on the hearth rug of her drawing-room, "you know what my Sunday night dinner parties are--all sorts and plenty of them, and never a dull man or a plain woman if I can help it. To-night I've got a new man. He's not much to look at, but they tell me he's a multimillionaire and making all the poor people of the country miserable. He's doing something about making bread dearer. I never did understand these things."

"Heavens, you don't mean Peter Phipps!" Sarah exclaimed.

"His very name," her aunt declared. "How did you guess it, my dear? Here he is. Be quiet, all of you, and watch Grover announce him. He's such a snob--Grover. He hates a Mister, anyhow, and 'Peter Phipps' will dislocate his tongue."

Lady Amesbury was disappointed. Grover had marched with the times, and the presence of a millionaire made itself felt. His announcement was sonorous and respectful. Mr. Peter Phipps made his bow to his hostess under completely auspicious circumstances.

"So kind of you not to forget, Mr. Phipps," she murmured. "My Sunday parties are always _viva voce_ invitations, and what between not remembering whom I've asked, and not knowing whether those I've asked will remember, I generally find it horribly difficult to arrange the places. We are all right tonight, though. Only two missing. Who are they, Sarah?"

"Josephine and Mr. Wingate," Sarah replied, with a covert glance at Phipps.

"Of course! And thank goodness, here they are! Together, too! If there's anything I love, it's to start one of my dinners with a scandal. Josephine, did you bring Mr. Wingate or did he bring you?"
1. Who addressed the crowd?
2. Where were they?
3. On what night were they meeting?
4. Who was normally not invited to her parties?
5. Who was the new guest?
6. Was he handsome?
7. Why was he invited, then?
8. Who is shocked by the announcement?
9. Is she related to Lady Amesbury?
10. Did she seem happy to hear Peter was coming?
11. Who announced his arrival?
12. How did Lady Amesbury describe him?
13. Was his introduction rude?
14. How did Peter greet Lady Amesbury?
15. Which two guests arrived together?
16. Was Lady Amesbury excited to see them?
17. Why?

Numbered answers:
1. Lady Amesbury
2. In her drawing room
3. Sunday
4. Dull men or plain women
5. Peter Phipps
6. No
7. He was a multimillionaire
8. Sarah
9. Yes
10. No
11. Grover
12. Snob
13. No
14. He bowed
15. Josephine and Wingate
16. Yes
17. She liked scandal

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Even at school there had been an unhealthy competition between George and Richard.

"I'll be the first millionaire in Coleford!" Richard used to boast.

"And you'll be sorry that you knew me," George would reply "because I'll surely be the best lawyer in our town!"

After graduation, George never became a lawyer and Richard was anybody but a millionaire .... Instead, it happened that both men opened bookshops on opposite sides of Coleford High Street, while it was hard to make much money from books then, which made the competition between them worse. Eventually, Richard closed down his, dreaming of making a fortune elsewhere.

Now, with only one bookshop in the town, business was better for George. But sometimes he sat in his narrow old kitchen and gazed out of the dirty window, thinking about his former rival . Perhaps he missed him?

George was very interested in old dictionaries, and he had recently found a collector in Australia who was selling a rare first edition. When the parcel arrived, the book was in perfect condition and George was quite delighted. But while he was having lunch, George glanced at the photo in the newspaper that the book had been wrapped in. He was astonished -- the smiling face was older than he remembered but unmistakable! Trembling, George started reading: "Bookends Company has bought ten bookstores from its competitors. The company, owned by multi-millionaire Richard Pike, is now the largest bookseller in this country."
1. Who always competed?
2. Was it healthy?
3. What did George find great interest in?
4. Did he ever find someone who collected them?
5. From where?
6. What did he have?
7. A common one?
8. Who thought they would have millions of dollars?
9. Did he?
10. How many of them ended up with a bookstore?
11. Where were they located?
12. Were they very successful?
13. Why not?
14. Who quit first?
15. Did this make the other one very happy in the long run?
16. What was the uncommon package he received covered in?
17. What did he notice was on it?
18. Of whom?
19. Was it his obituary?
20. What was it then?
Numbered answers:
1. George and Richard
2. no
3. old dictionaries
4. yes
5. Australia
6. a first edition
7. No
8. Richard
9. no
10. Both
11. Coleford High Street
12. no
13. hard to make much money from books
14. Richard
15. Yes
16. newspaper
17. a photo
18. Richard
19. No
20. A story about a bookseller.