question: Aaron Swartz helped create the Internet.

Maybe not the Internet foundations of ARPANET and TCP/IP and Mosaic, the codes and packets and standards on which the whole thing is based. But he was a factor in fashioning some of the Web's upper floors. With his contributions to RSS coding and the Web application framework, Swartz made some of today's more expansive Internet possible.

But what Swartz also helped create was a philosophy of the Internet, one that remains the subject of great controversy almost 20 years into its life: the libertarian idea that information wants to be free.

"Aaron was a genius," said Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist and a senior policy analyst at the ACLU. "He was a technologist who was committed to open access to information, and committed to bringing about the changes he believed in."

"Aaron was an embodiment of the Web, and a contributor to many of the aspects that made it great," said Matt Mullenweg, who founded the blogging platform WordPress, in a statement. "When I was young and getting into technology Aaron was even younger and literally setting the standards for the Web with contributions to RSS 1.0 and Creative Commons. He inspired a generation to share online, to move to (San Francisco), to not be afraid to start things, and to break down barriers."

Swartz died Friday of an apparent suicide in his apartment in Brooklyn, New York. He was 26.

Although Swartz's life was not without controversy -- he faced federal charges that he illegally downloaded millions of scholarly papers from MIT -- his death has been met with an outpouring of tributes and grief.
1. was someone claimed a genius?
2. Who?
3. Who made the claim?
4. what was his occupation?
5. Where at?
6. What did Aaron ai in developing?
7. Was there any controversy?
8. Over what?
9. What was he committed to?
10. was that controversial?
11. For how long?
12. Is he still alive?
13. When did he die?
14. How did he die?
15. How old was he?
16. When was he found?
17. Where was he found
18. Where was his apartment?
19. Did he create the internet?
20. What type of idea was the free info?
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answer: 1. yes
2. Aaron Swartz
3. Christopher Soghoian
4. principal technologist and a senior policy analyst
5. ACLU
6. RSS coding and the Web application framework
7. yes
8. illegally downloaded millions of scholarly papers
9. open access to information and bringing about the changes
10. yes
11. almost 20 years
12. No
13. Friday
14. apparent suicide
15. 26
16. unknown
17. his apartment
18. Brooklyn, New York
19. no
20. libertarian

question: Lily has a pen friend in America. Her name is Alice. They write to each other every week. They tell each other about their lives. Here is a letter from Lily. Dear Alice, Thank you for your letter and telling me about your best friend. In this letter, I'm going to tell you about my friend. Her name is Cathy. She has long brown hair and blue eyes. She is the same age as me, but a little taller .She is always happy. We sit together in class and help each other with our homework. We always play together after school and play computer games for an hour. Cathy thinks quickly and does better than me. She is learning to play the piano .I am learning to play the piano, too. We play together every day. It's fun. We always have a good time. Please write to me soon. Love, Lily
1. Who is in America?
2. Who is she writing to?
3. How often?
4. Who wrote the letter?
5. Who is it about?
6. How old is she?
7. What are they learning?
8. Who is happy?
9. What color is her hair?
10. What do they do in the afternoon?
11. Who is taller?
12. Who has a good time?
13. What does Lily want?
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answer: 1. Alice
2. Lily
3. every week
4. Lily
5. Cathy
6. the same age as Lily
7. to play the piano
8. Cathy
9. brown
10. play computer games
11. Cathy
12. Lily and Cathy
13. a letter from Alice

question: What do Tom Sawyer and Jumping Frogs have in common? Stories about both of them were created by one man: Mark Twain. Twain was four years old when his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, located on the west bank of the Mississippi. Twain grew up there and was fascinated with (......) life along the river----the steamboats, the giant lumber rafts, and the people who worked on them.

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is one of Twain's best loved short stories, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of his most famous novels. Both these works are celebrated by events held during National Tom Sawyer Days, which originated in the late 1950s and became national in the 1960s. Children enter their frogs in the jumping contest during National Tom Sawyer Days. There's also a fence painting contest to see who can paint the fastest. The idea for this contest comes from a scene in Tom Sawyer, in which Tom has been told to paint the fence in front of the house he lives in. It's a beautiful day, and he would rather be doing anything else. As his friends walk by, he makes them believe that it's fun to paint, and they join in the "fun". By the end of the day, the fence has three coats of paint!

Although the story of Tom Sawyer is a fiction, it's based on facts. If you go to Hannibal, you'll see the white fence, which still stands at Twain's boyhood home.
1. What's one of Mark Twain's most popular novels?
2. What else is celebrated in National Tom Sawyer Days?
3. Is it an official holiday?
4. Where?
5. When did it become official?
6. What days is the holiday held on?
7. What's an example of a thing that people do to celebrate it?
8. Anything else?
9. Is Tom Sawyer a real person?
10. Did he live in Missouri?
11. Did he enjoy painting?
12. Did he like frogs?
13. Is he based on a real person?
14. Who?
15. What did Twain like about his home?
16. How old was he when he started living there?
17. When was he born?
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answer:
1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
2. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
3. Yes
4. Missouri
5. The 1960s
6. unknown
7. Children enter their frogs in jumping contests.
8. Fence painting contest
9. No
10. unknown
11. No
12. unknown
13. Yes
14. Mark Twain
15. Life along the river
16. Four
17. unknown