Q: Musa Kayairanga of Rwanda is a traditional healer. He uses natural medicines to treat his patients. He learned how to use computers at a rural telecommunications center in his country. Musa Kayairanga says he exchanges information with doctors as far away as Canada. He also says the computer has improved his knowledge of using plants to treat diseases. Many people in rural areas are now able to communicate with the rest of the world. This is one example of how technology is changing life in developing countries.

Andrew Burns is an economist at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He led a recent study of technology in developing countries. The study found that technology has spread faster in such countries than in rich nations. It also found that technological progress has helped raise wages in developing countries. And it reduced the percentage of people living in extreme poverty from twenty-nine percent in 1990 to eighteen percent in 2004.

Progress in communications technology has aided the growth of call centers in developing countries. Call centers are offices where most telephone calls for a business can be answered. For example, a woman in the United States who calls her computer company about a problem might speak with someone in India or Pakistan.

Call centers serve businesses in local and international markets. And they have added to economic growth by providing well-paid jobs and new skills for workers who might not have had such employment. Ahsan Saeed is a young call center worker in Karachi, Pakistan. He says the job improves his language skills, his sales skills and his ability to deal with people.( from VOA Special English )

Answer the following questions:
1. Who works at the World Bank?
2. What is his position?
3. Where is it located?
4. What did his research conclude?
5. Anything else?
6. What?
7. That all?
8. Please tell me then
9. By how much?
10. Who is the first person mentioned?
11. Where is he from?
12. What does he do?
13. What treatments does he employ?
14. Like what?
15. What tools does he have?
A: 1. Andrew Burns
2. He is an economist
3. Washington, D.C
4. That technology has spread faster in developing countries than in rich nations.
5. Yes
6. That technological progress has helped raise wages in developing countries
7. No
8. Technologyt reduced the percentage of people living in extreme poverty
9. From twenty-nine percent in 1990 to eighteen percent in 2004
10. Musa Kayairanga
11. Rwanda
12. He is a traditional healer.
13. Natural medicines
14. unknown
15. The computer
Q: (CNN) -- Noah Baumbach is emerging as an emotionally acute, not to say eviscerating, observer of the middle-class intelligentsia, the kind of people who write letters to "The New York Times" and might plausibly pop up in a Woody Allen movie.

Unlike the Woodman, Baumbach doesn't show his face on screen, but his films are no less personal for that: "The Squid and the Whale" was a sometimes wincingly autobiographical account of two boys torn between their divorcing parents, and he's not one to deflect an insight with a wisecrack. The cracks just cut deeper. I've rarely experienced an audience recoil from a character as passionately as they did to Nicole Kidman's toxically self-absorbed writer in "Margot at the Wedding" (maybe her best performance, incidentally). These are comedies in the sense that the characters are painfully ridiculous -- and all too recognizably real -- but Baumbach sure doesn't make it easy for himself, or us.

Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is another neurotic narcissist, a middle-aged loner who comes back to Los Angeles to house-sit while his brother enjoys a long vacation in the Far East. Greenberg (only his brother calls him Roger) can feed the family dog, but the truth is that he desperately needs to regroup and recharge after a spell in a mental hospital.

He has one friend, Ivan (Rhys Ifans), who still has time for him and a wider circle of former friends who don't. We soon learn that Greenberg used to front a band, but it fell apart after he turned down a recording deal, and he's been in New York ever since, under-achieving on a permanent basis.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is an observer of middle class intelligentsia?
2. Does he appear on screen?
3. What was the film about two boys?
4. Was it about their loving parents?
5. Who was in Margot at the Wedding?
6. Are these movies thrillers?
7. Who played Roger Greenberg?
8. What city does the character come back to?
9. To do what?
10. For whom?
11. Where was his brother going/
12. What does Greenburg do for the dog?
A: 1. Noah Baumbach
2. No
3. "The Squid and the Whale"
4. No
5. Nicole Kidman
6. No
7. Ben Stiller
8. Los Angeles
9. House-sit
10. His brother
11. Far East
12. Feed the family dog
Q: Do you want to know something about children in Africa? What to they do for fun every day? Find out here: Education School is expensive for many African children. Lots of families can't afford school uniforms or exercise books even though they don't have to pay for school. For those lucky enough to go to school , they have a lot to learn. Some take two language classes: English or French, and their first language. There is also math, science, history, social studies and geography. _ take up much of children's time after school. They have to get water and firewood for the family every day. Also there's cleaning , washing and helping Mum with the meal. Daily fun It's not all work and no play. Sports are very popular. Children can make goals with twigs ( )and their own footballs with plastic and bits of string ( ). They play in the country and the streets of old towns. There're many football teams for teenagers in Africa. Internet It's really expensive to get on the Internet. To surf the net for 20 hours costs over 600yuan. This is more than the average monthly pay per person. Egypt and South Africa are the top two users of the Internet in Africa. All of the capital cities there can get on the Internet. Some schools offer computer lessons but few students can enjoy computer fun at home.

Answer the following questions:
1. Is education cheap?
2. does everyone get to go to school?
3. are sports popular?
4. how much does the internet cost for 20 hours?
5. is that less than the monthly pay per person?
6. who are the top two countries in africa?
7. do they have football?
A:
1. no
2. no
3. yes
4. 600yuan
5. no
6. Egypt and South Africa
7. yes