Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Joe came to New York from the Middle West, dreaming about painting. Delia came to New York from the South, dreaming about music. Joe and Delia met in a studio. Before long they were good friends and got married. They had only a small flat to live in, but they were happy. They loved each other, and they were both interested in art. Everything was fine until one day they found they had spent all their money. Delia decided to give music lessons. One afternoon she said to her husband: "Joe, , I've found a pupil, a general's daughter. She is a sweet girl. I'm to give three lessons a week and get $5 a lesson." But Joe was not glad. "But how about me?" he said." Do you think I'm going to watch you work while I play with my art? No, I want to earn some money too." "Joe, , you are silly," said Delia. "You must keep at your studies. We can live quite happily on $15 a week." "Well, perhaps I can sell some of my pictures," said Joe. Every day they parted in the morning and met in the evening. A week passed and Delia brought home fifteen dollars, but she looked a little tired. "Clementina sometimes gets on my nerves. I'm afraid she doesn't practice enough. But the general is the nicest old man! I wish you could know him, Joe." And then Joe took eighteen dollars out of his pocket. "I've sold one of my pictures to a man from Peoria," he said, "and he has ordered another." "I'm so glad," said Delia. "Thirty-three dollars! We never had so much to spend before. We'll have a good supper tonight." Next week Joe came home and put another eighteen dollars on the table. In half an hour Delia came, her right hand in a bandage. "What's the matter with your hand?" said Joe. Delia laughed and said: "Oh, a funny thing happened! Clemantina gave me a plate of soup and spilled some of it on my hand. She was very sorry for it. And so was the old general. But why are you looking at me like that, Joe?" "What time this afternoon did you burn your hand, Delia?" "Five o'clock, I think. The iron-I mean the soup-was ready about five, Why?" "Delia, come and sit here," said Joe. He drew her to the couch and sat beside her. "What do you do every day, Delia? Do you really give music lesson? Tell me the truth." She began to cry. "I couldn't get any pupils," she said, "So I got a place in a laundry ironing shirts. This afternoon a girl accidentally set down an iron on my hand and I got a bad burn. But tell me, Joe, how did you guess that I wasn't giving music lessons?" "It's very simple," said Joe. "I knew all about your bandages because I had to send them upstairs to a girl in the laundry who had an accident with a hot iron. You see, I work in the engine-room of the same laundry where you work." "And your pictures? Did you sell any to that man from Peoria?" "Well, _ And then they both laughed.

1. Where did Joe come from?
2. Where did he move to?
3. Where did Delia move to?
4. Where did she move from?
5. What was she dreaming about?
6. Where did they meet?
7. Did they get married?
8. What did Delia decide?
9. How many lessons a week/
10. How much money for each lesson?
11. Did Joe want to make money?
12. How much can they live happily on?
13. How much money did Delia bring home?
14. How much did Joe take home?
15. What happened to Delia's hand?
16. Who did that?
17. What time did this happen?
18. What actually happened to her hand?
19. Where does Delia actually work?
20. Where does Joe work?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. he Middle West
2. New York
3. New York
4. the South
5. music
6. in a studio
7. yes
8. to give music lessons
9. three
10. Five
11. yes
12. $15 a week
13. fifteen dollars
14. eighteen dollars
15. soup was spilled on it
16. Clemantina
17. Five o'clock
18. set down an iron on her hand
19. in a laundry
20. the engine-room of the same laundry

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

To many Westerners, Manga is synonymous with fantasy -- its glossy lines, popping color palettes and fanciful scenarios are an escapist's delight.

But one of the most celebrated makers of the wildly popular Japanese graphic novels says he draws on reality as much as possible.

Takehiko Inoue was just 23 when his second Manga propelled him to fame in Japan.

"Slam Dunk," published in 31 volumes of magazine "Weekly Shonen Jump" in the early 1990s, followed the fortunes of a loveless delinquent who joins a basketball team to impress a girl, and then discovers a natural ability for the game.

Inoue's interest in Manga was piqued when, at nine years old, he read a popular baseball Manga called "Dokaben." It had "attractive characters," he recalls, "and how they play baseball and how their bodies were drawn -- all these things looked so cool."

A keen basketball player at high school, Inoue says drawing a basketball Manga was a natural way for him to combine his two loves, and he believes "Slam Dunk" readers could see the obvious enjoyment he took from drawing basketball.

"I really drew it in the way I liked, did whatever I wanted," he says.

"Slam Dunk" has now sold almost 120 million copies, been licensed in 17 countries, and adapted into an anime TV series. An English version was released in North America in 2002.

Its popularity endures: According to a 2012 survey by research group goo, it is still the second most popular Japanese Manga, and is responsible for the single most memorable piece of dialogue -- when a coach says, "If you give up, the game is already over!"

1. How old is Takehiko Inoue?
2. How old was he when he became famous?
3. What sport did he play?
4. When did he play it?
5. What does he do for a living now?
6. What publication of his made him famous?
7. How many copies has it sold?
8. Is it sold in other countries?
9. How many has it been licensed in?
10. What was it about?
11. What was it published in?
12. In what year?
13. Is it available in any other forms of media?
14. What kind?
15. Was the manga still popular in 2012?
16. Is it the most popular?
17. What is manga synonymous with to Western people?
18. Why?
19. What made Inoue interested in Manga?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. unknown
2. 23
3. basketball
4. at high school
5. draws Manga
6. "Slam Dunk"
7. 120 million copies
8. yes
9. 17 countries,
10. it follows the fortunes of a loveless delinquent who joins a basketball team
11. in 31 volumes of magazine "Weekly Shonen Jump"
12. the early 1990s,
13. yes
14. into an anime TV series
15. yes
16. no
17. with fantasy
18. its glossy lines, popping color palettes and fanciful scenarios are an escapist's delight.
19. he read a popular baseball Manga called "Dokaben."