question: Tom and Fred are talking about the year 2020. "What will our world be like in the year 2020?" asks Tom. "I don't know," says Fred. "What do you think?" asks Tom. "Well, no one knows, but it's interesting to guess," says Fred. "In the year 2020 everyone will carry a pocket computer. The computer will give people the answer to all their problem. We will have telephones in our pockets, too, and we will be able to talk to our friends," says Tom. "A lot of people will live and work under the sea. Machines will do most of the work, and so people will have more holidays. They will be able to fly to the moon by spaceship and spend their holidays there," says Fred. "And I hope I will be able to live under the sea," says Tom. "Won't that be very interesting? Just like a fish."
1. Who is talking?
2. About what?
3. What will everyone carry?
4. What will it do?
5. How will we communicate?
6. Who will contribute most?
7. Why?
8. Where?
9. How will they get there?
10. Who wishes to survive under water?
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answer: 1. Tom and Fred
2. the year 2020?
3. a pocket computer
4. answer all problems.
5. telephones in our pockets
6. Machines
7. so people will have more holidays.
8. the moon
9. spaceship
10. Tom.

question: Adult contemporary music (AC) is a style of music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, quiet storm, and rock influence. Adult contemporary is rather a continuation of the easy listening and soft rock style that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s with some adjustments that reflect the evolution of pop/rock music.

Adult contemporary tends to have lush, soothing and highly polished qualities where emphasis on melody and harmonies is accentuated. It is usually melodic enough to get a listener's attention, and is inoffensive and pleasurable enough to work well as background music. Like most of pop music, its songs tend to be written in a basic format employing a versechorus structure.

Adult contemporary is heavy on romantic sentimental ballads which mostly use acoustic instruments (though bass guitar is usually used) such as acoustic guitars, pianos, saxophones, and sometimes an orchestral set. The electric guitars are normally faint and high-pitched. However, recent adult contemporary music may usually feature synthesizers (and other electronics, such as drum machines).
1. What era does Adult contemporary cover?
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answer: 1. The 1960s and 1970s.

question: (CNN) -- International aid workers scrambling to get into Haiti face a series of obstacles, from an airport that is already overwhelmed to blocked roads and a lack of communication, electricity, food and water.

And, as if that weren't enough, they will encounter a serious crime problem, a veteran disaster relief specialist told CNN.

"Security now in this particular crisis has already been raised as a major, major issue," said Paul Sherlock, a senior humanitarian representative for Oxfam.

"If you'd been in Haiti 25 years ago, even in Papa Doc's time, it was a pretty nasty dictatorship, and lots of people were killed. But infrastructure and services worked better then than they do now," he said.

Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier was president from 1957 to 1971.

"It was safer to use public transport then than it was last year, certainly in terms of crime," he said.

"Over the last 10, 15, 20 years, the gangs and the drug culture have taken hold of Haiti, and that is why over the last four to five years, the United Nations has been trying to administer security in the capital and all the provincial cities as well," he said.

Nongovernmental organization workers "have not been using public transport or taxis because of the security risk they face. International aid workers certainly didn't."

Aid workers on their way to Haiti now are not sure how to ensure their safety, he said.

Some are "probably using U.N. military as escorts, but many NGOs are uncomfortable using any military escort. They have been going to the police, but I don't know, after what has happened, whether the police are in any better position to provide it."
1. Is public transportation safe in Haiti?
2. What kind of workers are going to Haiti?
3. What are they up against?
4. How is communication in the area?
5. Is the enough power?
6. What about food and water?
7. Are all the roads passable?
8. How is the airport faring?
9. Who is Papa Doc?
10. Where?
11. What type of government did he run?
12. How did services compare from then to now?
13. Who might some be using to help protect them?
14. Who do a lot of NGOs turn to?
15. Are the going to be able to help?
16. What has become a problem over the past decades?
17. What else?
18. How long has the UN tried to help?
19. Where are they helping with security?
20. How will Aid workers stay safe?
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answer:
1. No
2. International aid workers
3. a series of obstacles
4. lack of communication
5. No
6. lack of food and water.
7. No
8. overwhelmed
9. president from 1957 to 1971
10. Haiti
11. dictatorship
12. worked better
13. U.N. military
14. police
15. I don't know
16. drug culture
17. serious crime problem
18. last four to five years
19. in the capital and all the provincial cities
20. not sure how to ensure their safet