question: Olympic torch relay planned route Beijing, April 27--The Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay will cover the greatest area and include the largest number of people. The plans were announced on Thursday night. The planned route would last 130 days and travel 137 000 km. First Nobel Prize winner to donate to Hope School Chinanews, Beijing, May 10--Professor Dannel Chee Tsui, in the USA, signed the agreement to donate 350 000yuan to his home town to build a Hope Primary School in China. Bill Gates receives Tsinghua honorary doctorate Beijing,April 20--Bill Gates, chairman of global IT giant Microsoft, received an honorary doctorate when he visited China's famous Tsinghua University on Thursday. Big Shaolin kung fu center to be built in Russia Chinanews, Beijing, April 27--China and Russia have signed a letter of intent ( )on the building of a Shaolin kung fu center in Russia. It will be the first of its kind in Russia,and also the biggest overseas kung fu center when it is completed.
1. What did bill gate recieve
2. Was the plan announced on a weekend?
3. What did China and Russia agreed on to create?
4. How much does the first nobel prize winner donated?
5. For whom did he donate it?
6. Where was the hope school located?
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answer: 1. Tsinghua honorary doctorate.
2. No.
3. A Shaolin kung fu center in Russia
4. 350 000yuan
5. to Hope School
6. China

question: Robert Frost was one of America's best known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came late in his life. He was born in San Francisco, California in 1874. He lived in California during his early childhood. He was named after the chief Southern general in America's Civil War. The general's name was Robert Edward Lee. The poet was named Robert Lee Frost, because his father wanted to honor the general. Someone once asked another American writer, Ernest Hemingway, how to become a writer. The best thing, he said, was to have an unhappy childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost's childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very good writer. Robert Frost's father was a reporter who wanted to be a politician. He often drank too much wine and became angry. Robert was the victim of his anger. Robert Frost finished high school in 1891. After high school, Robert's grandfather offered to pay his costs at Dartmouth College. But Robert left the school after a few months. He did not like it. He spent the next few years working at different jobs. At one time, he worked in a factory. Later, he repaired shoes. He was a teacher. He was a reporter. Always, he wrote poetry. Robert Frost attended Harvard University for two years. After that, he returned to the many jobs he held before. For a while, Frost tried to take care of a farm in the state of New Hampshire. He was not a successful farmer. And he continued to write poetry. He said that until 1930, he earned only about ten dollars a year from writing. In 1912, he decided to try to make a new start. He took his family to Britain. The cost of living was low. In Britain, Frost found a publisher for his first book of poems. The book was called A Boy's Will. When it appeared in 1913. Frost received high praise from British readers. Praise was something he had not received in his own country. Ezra Pound, another American poet living in Britain, read the poems and liked them very much. He wrote a magazine article about Frost. He also helped get Frost's second book of poems published in America. That book was called North of Boston.
1. Who is a honored serious writer?
2. WHere did he live as a kid?
3. What year was he born?
4. How do you be a good writer?
5. What did he drink too much of?
6. What year did he finish school?
7. What was his first job?
8. What Uni did he attend?
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answer: 1. Robert Frost
2. California
3. 1874
4. have an unhappy childhood
5. unknown
6. 1891
7. unknown
8. Harvard University and Dartmouth College

question: Python is a widely used high-level programming language for general-purpose programming, created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991. An interpreted language, Python has a design philosophy that emphasizes code readability (notably using whitespace indentation to delimit code blocks rather than curly brackets or keywords), and a syntax that allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than might be used in languages such as C++ or Java. The language provides constructs intended to enable writing clear programs on both a small and large scale.

Python features a dynamic type system and automatic memory management and supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented, imperative, functional programming, and procedural styles. It has a large and comprehensive standard library. Python interpreters are available for many operating systems, allowing Python code to run on a wide variety of systems. CPython, the reference implementation of Python, is open source software and has a community-based development model, as do nearly all of its variant implementations. CPython is managed by the non-profit Python Software Foundation.

Python was conceived in the late 1980s, and its implementation began in December 1989 by Guido van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC language (itself inspired by SETL) capable of exception handling and interfacing with the operating system Amoeba. Van Rossum is Python's principal author, and his continuing central role in deciding the direction of Python is reflected in the title given to him by the Python community, "Benevolent Dictator For Life" (BDFL).
1. What was thought of in the eighties?
2. What year was it implemented?
3. And the month?
4. By whom?
5. Where at?
6. What was it replacing?
7. When did they initially release it?
8. Does it only cater to an elite few?
9. What did it primarily focus on?
10. What did it emphasize?
11. An example of this?
12. Does it take more to create less than other applications?
13. What alternative applications does it outdo in that aspect?
14. Does it only work in little projects?
15. How many program archetypes does it support?
16. An example?
17. Any others?
18. Does it only work on one certain OS?
19. Is the library big or little?
20. Who manages the communal version?
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answer:
1. Python
2. 1989
3. December
4. Guido van Rossum
5. Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
6. the ABC language
7. 1991
8. no
9. unknown
10. code readability
11. using whitespace indentation
12. fewer
13. C++ and Java
14. no
15. multiple
16. functional programming
17. procedural
18. no
19. big
20. Python Software Foundation.