Q: Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in conjunction with the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) standard and published as The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode contains a repertoire of more than 120,000 characters covering 129 modern and historic scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets. The standard consists of a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding method and set of standard character encodings, a set of reference data files, and a number of related items, such as character properties, rules for normalization, decomposition, collation, rendering, and bidirectional display order (for the correct display of text containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, and left-to-right scripts). As of June 2015[update], the most recent version is Unicode 8.0. The standard is maintained by the Unicode Consortium.

Unicode can be implemented by different character encodings. The most commonly used encodings are UTF-8, UTF-16 and the now-obsolete UCS-2. UTF-8 uses one byte for any ASCII character, all of which have the same code values in both UTF-8 and ASCII encoding, and up to four bytes for other characters. UCS-2 uses a 16-bit code unit (two 8-bit bytes) for each character but cannot encode every character in the current Unicode standard. UTF-16 extends UCS-2, using one 16-bit unit for the characters that were representable in UCS-2 and two 16-bit units (4 8 bits) to handle each of the additional characters.

Answer the following questions:
1. how many common encodes?
2. are they all still in use?
3. what one is not longer used?
4. what is the first common one?
5. how many bytes does it use?
6. for what?
7. what is the second one?
A: 1. Three
2. No
3. UCS-2
4. UTF-8
5. one
6. any ASCII character
7. UTF-16
Q: The North Island or Te Ika-a-Maui (Maori) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the slightly larger but much less populous South Island by Cook Strait. The island's area is , making it the world's 14th-largest island. It has a population of

Twelve main urban areas (half of them officially cities) are in the North Island. From north to south, they are Whangarei, Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Rotorua, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Napier, Hastings, Whanganui, Palmerston North, and Wellington, the capital, located at the south-west extremity of the island. About % of New Zealand's population lives in the North Island.

Although the island has been known as the North Island for many years, in 2009 the New Zealand Geographic Board found that, along with the South Island, the North Island had no official name. After a public consultation, the board officially named the island North Island or Te Ika-a-Maui in October 2013.

In prose, the two main islands of New Zealand are called the North Island and the South Island, with the definite articles. It is normal to use the preposition "in" rather than "on", for example "Hamilton is in the North Island", "my mother lives in the North Island". Maps, headings, tables and adjectival expressions use North Island without "the".

Answer the following questions:
1. what island is the 14th largest in the world?
2. where is it?
3. what other name is the island known by?
4. how many cities are on the island?
5. how many total areas?
6. which one is the furthest north?
7. which one is furthest south?
8. is that the capital?
9. what is its location?
10. what are some other urban areas or cities on the island?
11. what are the others?
12. when was the North Island officially named?
13. when was it discovered that it needed a name?
14. by who?
15. what is the other main island of New Zealand?
16. did it have an official name?
17. which island is larger?
18. which one has more people living in it?
19. where is the South Island located?
20. Is it normal to say in the island or on the island?
A: 1. The North Island
2. New Zealand
3. Te Ika-a-Maui
4. Six
5. Twelve main urban areas
6. Whangarei
7. Wellington
8. Yes
9. the south-west extremity of the island.
10. Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Rotorua, and Gisborne
11. New Plymouth, Napier, Hastings, Whanganui, and Palmerston North
12. 2013
13. 2009
14. the New Zealand Geographic Board
15. The South Island
16. No
17. The North Island
18. The North Island
19. on the other side of the Cook Strait.
20. in
Q: (CNN) -- He was the soccer referee known as "golden whistle" who officiated in high-profile events such as the World Cup and the Olympics.

But a Chinese court has called fulltime on Lun Ju's career by jailing him for match fixing.

China's state news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday that Lu has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison by a court in Liaoning Province after accepting $128,000 to fix seven matches in China's national league.

Three other officials -- Huang Junjie, Wan Daxue and Zhou Weixin -- were also jailed for seven, six, and three and a half years respectively.

The cases were brought after a government crackdown on persistent allegations of gambling, match fixing and corruption in China's football leagues was launched in 2009.

But it is the fall of Lu that has grabbed the most headlines around the world. He was the first Chinese official to referee at a World Cup, when South Korea and Japan hosted the showpiece event in 2002.

Prior to that he had taken charge of matches at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and was twice voted referee of the year by the Asian Football Confederation.

But the court in the city of Dandong, near the border with North Korea, found that Lu had altered the outcome of seven games that involved four clubs including Shanghai Shenhua, who have just signed former France striker Nicolas Anelka from English club Chelsea.

Huang was convicted of accepting $247,975 from seven separate cases while $31,760 of his personal assets were also confiscated.

Answer the following questions:
1. How many years was Lun Ju sent to jail?
2. Who reported that?
3. when?
4. What was Lun Ju's job?
5. Did he have a nickname?
6. Did he referee high school games?
7. What type of events did he rereree?
8. Like what?
9. Anything else?
10. What?
11. How many matches did he fix in the Chinese league?
12. Did he take any money?
13. How much?
14. Was anyone else caught?
15. How many?
16. Did they get jail time?
17. How many did Daxue get?
18. What about Huang Junjie?
A:
1. five and a half years
2. Xinhua
3. Thursday
4. soccer referee
5. "golden whistle"
6. No
7. high-profile
8. World Cup
9. Yes
10. Olympics
11. seven
12. Yes
13. $128,000
14. Yes
15. Three
16. Yes
17. six
18. seven