input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. When the film opens, the Oakland A's have just lost a game to the New York Yankees. And they're about to lose three of their best players to richer teams. Beane is sad, because he doesn't have enough money to compete with the big teams. But then he meets Peter Brand, a young Yale graduate and statistics expert.

Brand introduces Beane to sabermetrics---a controversial system for measuring how good a baseball player is. It applies computer-generated( )statistical analysis to work out a player's ability. It's completely different from the more traditional methods of talent spotting that all the other teams are using. With sabermetrics, Beane begins buying players other teams aren't interested in. And he manages to build a winning team with very little money.

Monayball is based on a true story, but characters have combined, dates have been changed and some events have been invented all for dramatic effect. For example, Peter Brand, Beane's assistant, never existed. However, he is largely based on Beane's former assistant Paul DePodesta. Though there are these changes, critics think that Brad Pitt's portrayal of Beane is _

One journalist wrote, " Pitt imitates Beane's gestures and speech patterns."

Beane's use of sabermetrics changed baseball. Now many teams rely on the method. But this form of complex computer-generated statistical analysis is used in business too. And these days, many businesses use sabermetrics to help plan their business strategies.

But Moneyballisn't just about facts and figures. Billy Beane himself was once a major-league baseball player. At the start of his career people expected big things from him. But he didn't achieve what is expected of him and in 1990 he retired with an average record. This past failure always returns to his mind, and the film is also about whether Beane will finally achieve success in his life.

The critics love Moneyball. One called it " the most soulful of baseball movies", another described it as a " home run". And most agree it's on track for some major awards. 1. What movie is this?
2. Is it based on a true story?
3. How does the movie start?
4. What are they about to lose?
5. To whom?
6. Why is Beane sad?
7. Who does he meet to change that?
8. Who is Peter?
9. Did the critics like this movie?
10. What did Beane use to change baseball?
11. Do other teams use it now?
12. What did Beane do before this?
13. What was expected of him?
14. Did he accomplish that?
15. When did he retire?
16. Did he have a good record?
17. Who plays Beane?
18. Do they think he did a good portrayal?
19. Where the characters and dates accurate to the real story?
20. Why did they change things?
numbered_answers: 1. Monayball
2. Yes
3. the Oakland A's have just lost a game to the New York Yankees
4. three of their best players
5. richer teams
6. because he doesn't have enough money to compete with the big teams
7. Peter Brand
8. a young Yale graduate and statistics expert.
9. Yes
10. sabermetrics
11. Yes
12. a major-league baseball player.
13. eople expected big things from him
14. No
15. 1990
16. No
17. Brad Pitt
18. Yes
19. No
20. dramatic effect.

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER III.

THE NIGHT-WATCHERS.

What first struck Margaret in Thrums was the smell of the caddis. The town smells of caddis no longer, but whiffs of it may be got even now as one passes the houses of the old, where the lay still swings at little windows like a great ghost pendulum. To me it is a homely smell, which I draw in with a great breath, but it was as strange to Margaret as the weavers themselves, who, in their colored nightcaps and corduroys streaked with threads, gazed at her and Gavin. The little minister was trying to look severe and old, but twenty-one was in his eye.

"Look, mother, at that white house with the green roof. That is the manse."

The manse stands high, with a sharp eye on all the town. Every back window in the Tenements has a glint of it, and so the back of the Tenements is always better behaved than the front. It was in the front that Jamie Don, a pitiful bachelor all his life because he thought the women proposed, kept his ferrets, and here, too, Beattie hanged himself, going straight to the clothes-posts for another rope when the first one broke, such was his determination. In the front Sanders Gilruth openly boasted (on Don's potato-pit) that by having a seat in two churches he could lie in bed on Sabbath and get the credit of being at one or other. (Gavin made short work of him.) To the right-minded the Auld Licht manse was as a family Bible, ever lying open before them, but Beattie spoke for more than him-self when he said, "Dagone that manse! I never gie a swear but there it is glowering at me." 1. What color is the top of the church?
2. Is it short?
3. Who behaves better?
4. Why?
5. Who killed himself?
6. How many attempts did it take?
7. Who never had a wife?
8. What pets did he keep?
9. Who felt the church was always staring at him?
10. Was he the only one?
11. Did someone else think differently about it?
12. Who?
13. Who did they see it?
14. Did the area have an odor?
15. Of what?
16. Who felt this way?
17. Did she think it was normal?
18. Does the narrator like the odor or dislike it?
19. What are the people who weave things wearing?
20. Who tried to look tough and elderly?
numbered_answers:
1. green
2. No
3. the back of the Tenements
4. Every back window in the Tenements has a glint of it
5. Beattie
6. Two
7. Jamie Don
8. Ferrets
9. Beattie
10. No
11. Yes
12. The right-minded
13. as a family Bible, ever lying open before them,
14. Yes
15. The caddis
16. Margaret
17. No
18. He likes it
19. colored nightcaps and corduroys
20. The little minister