Problem: Cairo (CNN) -- Outside Egypt's top court in Cairo, protest leader Hussein Abdel Rahman wears a sash around his collared shirt emblazoned with a zucchini. The judiciary, he says, has transformed into what the green vegetable means in colloquial language: corruption, nepotism, favoritism.

An editorial cartoon in a Cairo daily sums up Egypt's state of affairs: a scribbled mess of spirals.

And the presidential election this weekend, once hailed as Egypt's big step toward democracy, is now satirized in an online mock-up of a video game pitting a bare-chested Ahmed Shafik, the last prime minister under ousted President Hosni Mubarak, against the bearded Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The runoff vote is taking place after the Supreme Constitutional Court declared the parliament invalid and triggered renewed chaos over the country's leadership.

The ruling dealt a blow to the Muslim Brotherhood, which dominated parliament, and was victory for supporters of Shafik, the focus of protesters' derision for his ties to the deposed dictator.

Anger festered Friday among those who feared that a hard-won revolution was fast unraveling; that little had changed.

Rankled revolutionaries felt left out in the cold on a hot June day.

The dissolution of parliament gives the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF, full legislative and executive power alongside, it appears, a friendly judiciary.

"SCAF has been suppressing our protests, suppressing the youth movements on the ground," said Wisam Mohamed. "They have been arresting thousands of us."

Ahmed Maher, a founder of the April 6 Youth Movement, which played a prominent role in last year's Tahrir Square uprising, called the ruling "provocative."
1. Who felt left out?
2. What does SCAF stand for?
3. Who is Ahmed Maher?
4. What did Maher call the ruling?
5. Who was the protest leader?
6. What was Rahman wearing?
7. With what vegetable on it?
8. What does the zucchini represent?
9. How did the cartoon sum up the current state?
10. When is the presidential election?
11. Who did the ruling deal a blow to?
12. Who was it a victory for?
13. Are people angry?
14. What do people fear?
15. Who said SCAF is stopping protests?
Answer: 1. revolutionaries
2. Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
3. founder of the April 6 Youth Movement
4. "provocative"
5. Hussein Abdel Rahman
6. a sash
7. zucchini
8. corruption, nepotism, favoritism
9. a scribbled mess of spirals
10. this weekend
11. Muslim Brotherhood
12. supporters of Shafik
13. Yes
14. revolution was fast unraveling
15. Wisam Mohamed

Problem: Children who spend more time reading with their parents have a greater chance of becoming better readers than those who don't. With help from their parents, children can learn techniques to improve their reading skills.

"A lot of parents think after their child learns to read, they should stop reading to them," Donna George said. "They are sadly mistaken."

George offers her services to parents at the Title I Learning Centers. She said reading aloud to children may be the most valuable thing parents can do. "It is better for children to hear things at a higher level than where they are," George said. "Parents are their child's first teacher." Parents help their children build listening, phonics , comprehension and vocabulary skills when they read aloud to them.

Before parents can identify reading problems, they should escape the enemy----television and limit the time their children spend watching television. George suggested not allowing kids to have a TV in their bedrooms, setting a schedule of when kids can watch or keeping a list of how many programs children watch. Louise Joiners said while her 14-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son enjoy reading, the television sometimes becomes a _ . So she tries to build the situation by suggesting books the entire family will enjoy reading together, like the Harry Potter series.

Parents who do not read themselves should not depend on their children being enthusiastic about it. If parents would read to their children at least 15 minutes every day, children would not have so many problems in school. It is the parents' job to help build that desire in their children, and of course to know what kind of books to read is also important.
1. Once a child learns to read is a parents job with that done?
2. Who is Donna George?
3. Who does she consider a child's first teacher?
4. What does she think of as the enemy?
5. Is reading to kids important?
6. Does this build any skills?
7. What is one?
8. Should children have a tv in their room?
9. What is the minimum time parents should read to kids?
10. How often?
11. What would this curtail?
12. How can children gain techniques for reading?
13. What level is it good for kids to hear things on?
14. What should parents schedule?
15. watch what?
16. What should they have a list of?
17. Is Louise a mother?
18. to how many kids?
19. what ages
20. Do they like to read?
Answer: 1. no
2. she runs a Title I Center
3. Parents
4. television
5. yes
6. yes
7. vocabulary
8. no
9. 15 minutes
10. every day
11. problems in school
12. With parent's help.
13. a higher level
14. when to watch
15. TV
16. programs
17. yes
18. two
19. 14 and 10
20. yes

Problem: Compact Disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format. The format was originally developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM). Several other formats were further derived from these, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video Compact Disc (VCD), Super Video Compact Disc (SVCD), Photo CD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced Music CD. Audio CDs and audio CD players have been commercially available since October 1982.

In 2004, worldwide sales of audio CDs, CD-ROMs and CD-Rs reached about 30 billion discs. By 2007, 200 billion CDs had been sold worldwide. CDs are increasingly being replaced by other forms of digital storage and distribution, with the result that audio CD sales rates in the U.S. have dropped about 50% from their peak; however, they remain one of the primary distribution methods for the music industry. In 2014, revenues from digital music services matched those from physical format sales for the first time.
1. What is a compact disc?
2. What is it's abbreviation?
3. Why was it invented?
4. Any other reasons?
5. Does that disc have a different name?
6. What?
7. Are there other formats?
8. How many?
9. Name two of these?
10. What is VCD?
11. How long have CDs been available to the public?
12. How many sales did it reach in 2004?
13. How many sold around the world by 2007?
14. Are they still as popular?
15. Why?
16. Have sales dropped?
17. By how much?
18. How were sales in 2014?
19. What does CD-RW mean?
20. Name another form?
Answer:
1. digital optical disc data storage format
2. CD
3. to store and play only sound recording
4. for storage of data
5. Yes
6. CD-ROM
7. Yes
8. 10
9. CD-R and CD-RW
10. Video Compact Disc
11. since October 1982.
12. about 30 billion discs
13. 200 billion
14. No
15. being replaced by other forms of digital storage and distribution,
16. Yes
17. about 50% from their peak;
18. revenues from digital music services matched those from physical format sales for the first time.
19. rewritable media
20. Super Video Compact Disc (SVCD)