input: SAN FRANCISCO--A phone app in San Francisco gives information about open parking spots. City officials in San Francisco introduced the app to try to reduce traffic jams in the city, but some say it raises safety concerns.

In this city, drivers searching for parking spots lead to 30 percent of all downtown jams, city officials think. Now San Francisco has found a solution--a phone app for spot-seekers that displays information about areas with available spaces. The system, introduced last month, relies on wireless sensors fixed in streets and city garages that can tell within seconds if a spot has opened up.

Monique Soltani, a TV reporter, said she and her sister spent 25 minutes on Friday trying to park. "We were praying to the parking god that we'd find a spot," she said. "If we had the app, we would not have to pray to the parking god." But the system could come with serious consequences.

Some people say that drivers searching for parking could end up focusing on their phones, not the road. "It could be really distracting ," said Daniel Simons, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois.

City officials acknowledge the potential problem. They are urging drivers to pull over before they use the city's iPhone app, or to do so before they leave home. Nathaniel Ford, executive director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, said safety could actually improve if drivers quickly found a spot instead of circling and getting frustrated.

San Francisco has put sensors into 7,000 parking spots and 12,250 spots in city garages. If spaces in an area open up, the sensors communicate wirelessly with computers that in turn make the information available to app users within a minute, said Mr. Ford, of the transportation agency. On the app, a map shows which blocks have lots of places (blue) and which are full (red).

More than 12,000 people have downloaded San Francisco's app, which is available now only for the iPhone but which city officials say they hope to bring to all similar devices.

When it is started up, the city's parking app warns drivers not to use the system while in motion. But safety advocates said that might not be sufficient. After all, they say, texting while driving is illegal in California and in many states, but a number of surveys, including one by the Pew Research Center, show that many Americans do it anyway.

Elizabeth Stampe, executive director of Walk San Francisco, a pedestrian advocacy group, said she hoped the new parking app would lead to fewer accidents.

"It's an innovative idea," she said. "The safe way for people to use the device is for them to pull over, which they know they should do. The question is whether they will."

But Ms. Soltani, the TV reporter, said using the app would probably join the group of activities already performed by drivers.

"We're already looking at Google Maps and Facebook on the phone while we drive," she said. "Aren't we always looking at something on our phone, or changing the radio, or drinking coffee? You're always slightly distracted when you're driving." 1. How long did it take Monique to park?
2. What is her profession?
3. What is Daniel Simon's concern about the app?
4. Where does he work?
5. What does he teach?
6. What does the app hope to reduce?
7. What percentage of jams are caused by parking?
8. According to whom?
9. How many sensors has San Francisco installed?
10. How long does it take to transmit an opening to the app?
11. According to who?
12. Which color indicates a parking spot is open?
13. Is the app available on Android?
14. How many people have downloaded it?
15. Is texting and driving legal in California?
16. What organization says that drivers might do it anyway?
17. What might they be doing, according to Ms. Soltani?
18. What other apps does she think users look at while they're driving? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. 25 minutes
2. TV reporter
3. It could be really distracting
4. University of Illinois.
5. f psychology
6. traffic jams
7. 30 percent of all downtown jams
8. city officials
9. 7,000
10. within a minute
11. Mr. Ford
12. blue
13. no
14. More than 12,000
15. no
16. Pew Research Center
17. using the app
18. Google Maps and Facebook

input: Charles went on a bike ride last week when he was on vacation. His father took him Saturday morning. It had rained Thursday and Friday. They got in his father's truck and put their bikes in the back. Father and son went to a bike path in a town near them. Trees were on both sides of the path. It was nice and warm outside, but Charles like riding on the road between the trees. There was a lot of shade. Charles saw several friends and people from school when they were riding. He got to ride with Harry and Peter. They also rode with Peter's sisters, Anne, Kelley, and Beth. His friend Paul also went by. They only said, "Hi," to each other. Charles fell once. He fell after seeing a girl he liked. Her name was Claire. She came over to see if he was okay. He had a small cut on his arm. His father put a bandage on his arm and they rode back to the truck. Charles and his father stopped for ice cream. They both got sundaes and ate them when they got home. They were glad they went for a ride because it also rained on Sunday. 1. Whats charles on vacation last week?
2. Did he go on a bike ride?
3. Who took him on the bike ride?
4. What did it do on Thursday and Friday?
5. Did they ride on a path or on the road?
6. Was it warm outside?
7. Did Charles fall?
8. Was he injured from the fall?
9. What did his dad do to help him?
10. What did they get to eat after?
11. When did they eat them?
12. Were they glad they went for a ride?
13. Why were they glad? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. yes
2. Yes
3. His father.
4. It rained.
5. On the road.
6. Yes.
7. Yes
8. Yes.
9. Put a bandage on his arm.
10. ice cream
11. When they got home.
12. Yes
13. Because it rained on Sunday.

input: Chapter XIV. And Jill Finds It Out

Jill worried about it more than he did, for she was a faithful little friend, and it was a great trial to have Jack even suspected of doing anything wrong. School is a child's world while he is there, and its small affairs are very important to him, so Jill felt that the one thing to be done was to clear away the cloud about her dear boy, and restore him to public favor.

"Ed will be here Saturday night and may be he will find out, for Jack tells him everything. I do hate to have him hectored so, for I know he is, though he's too proud to complain," she said, on Thursday evening, when Frank told her some joke played upon his brother that day.

"I let him alone, but I see that he isn't badgered too much. That's all I can do. If Ed had only come home last Saturday it might have done some good, but now it will be too late; for the reports are given out to-morrow, you know," answered Frank, feeling a little jealous of Ed's influence over Jack, though his own would have been as great if he had been as gentle.

"Has Jerry come back?" asked Jill, who kept all her questions for Frank, because she seldom alluded to the tender subject when with Jack.

"No, he's off for the summer. Got a place somewhere. Hope he'll stay there and let Bob alone."

"Where is Bob now? I don't hear much about him lately," said Jill, who was constantly on the lookout for "the other fellow," since it was not Joe. 1. Whom does Jack talk to about everything?
2. Who was envious of this?
3. How was he related to Jack?
4. How does he treat Jack?
5. What does he do?
6. Does he play jokes on him?
7. What sort of jokes?
8. Why was Jill questioning him about Jerry?
9. Why was Jerry gone?
10. Were Jack and Jill friends?
11. Why was she concerned about his status?
12. What did she try to do to help him? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Ed
2. Frank
3. his brother
4. poorly
5. unknown
6. yep
7. unknown
8. unknown
9. he's off for the summer
10. yes
11. she didn't want him suspected
12. clear away the cloud about him