Q: Our English teacher, Tom Jackson, has some good neighbors. They are Carl, Ann, Joe and Mary. Here's some information about them. Carl is a train conductor. He works on the railway for 28 years. It is always a good job for him because he likes meeting people. Carl is very helpful and tries to make the passengers comfortable. He often stops to talk with the passengers. He likes his work because he can travel to many different places. Ann is a kind woman in a small town. In a hospital, she works as a nurse for four years. She likes her work very much. This month she is helping mothers with their new babies. Joe is a taxi driver. He drives a taxi for 22 years. Most of the time Joe likes his work. He takes many film stars to the airport. He is cheerful and smiles a lot and his passengers like him. He makes a good living and _ a family of four. Mary is a teacher in a high school. She teaches French. She has 33 students in her class, 15 boys and 18 girls. She likes her students, and her students like her. She is very kind and helps them a lot. She is always happy to be a teacher.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is a train conductor?
2. Who is an English teacher?
3. How many people does he live by?
4. Which neighbor has a job in the hospital?
5. For how long?
6. What does Joe do?
7. For how long?
8. Who is a French teacher?
9. Does she enjoy it?
10. Does Carl like his job?
11. How long has Carl worked ?
A: 1. Carl
2. Tom Jackson
3. Four
4. Ann
5. four years
6. he drives a taxi
7. 22 years
8. Mary
9. yes
10. yes
11. 28 years
Q: "Are you happy?" The simple question usually makes people confused . Even Mo Yan, who won a Nobel Prize, replied to it by saying, "I don't know." When a migrant worker was asked, "Are you happy? (Ni Xing Fu Ma?)" by a CCTV reporter, he looked confused before replying, "My family name is Zeng. (Wo Xing Zeng.)" This has become a joke. But his answer showed migrant workers and TV reporters live in different worlds and they cannot even communicate with each other. Similarly, when asked, "Are you happy?" a 73-year-old man, collecting used plastic bottles in a street in Zhejiang, said, "The bottles can be sold for 0.1 yuan each." Asked again, he said, "The government is good." The reporter went on, "My question is 'Are you happy?'" The old man answered, "My hearing is not good." The reporter probably tried to reach the same answer that the interviewees including the migrant worker and the old man are "happy". In fact, when the question is asked, we should learn about people's true situation and their true wishes and opinions but their "Yes" or "No". Luckily, the government has paid more attention to the importance. Now there are many TV programs giving common people the chance to give their opinions. "Everything we do is aimed at letting people live more happily." At last year's National People's Congress , Wen Jiabao said and agreed that increasing happiness would be a top aim for the 12th five-year plan.

Answer the following questions:
1. What goal does China have?
2. For which plan?
3. According to who?
4. When did he state this?
5. At which convention?
6. What question did the reporter ask?
7. How does that translate into Chinese?
8. Who responded with his family name, instead?
9. Who responded with his opinion of the government?
10. Was he hard of hearing?
11. How did he feel about the government?
12. What award did Mo Yan win?
13. Is he happy?
14. What should we really be looking for, when we ask the question?
15. What answer do we usually receive?
16. Has the government taken notice of the issue?
17. What steps have they taken?
18. How do they want their people to live?
19. Has the disconnect been made into a running joke?
20. What was the old man doing when he was asked the question?
A: 1. Increasing happiness.
2. The 12th five-year plan.
3. Wen Jiabao.
4. Last year.
5. National People's Congress
6. Are you happy?"
7. Ni Xing Fu Ma?
8. A migrant worker.
9. A 73-year-old man.
10. Yes.
11. It's good.
12. Nobel Prize.
13. He doesn't know.
14. People's true situation.
15. "Yes" or "No".
16. Yes.
17. There are many TV programs giving common people the chance to give their opinions.
18. More happily.
19. Yes.
20. Collecting used plastic bottles in a street.
Q: Telugu is a Dravidian language native to India. It stands alongside Hindi, English, and Bengali as one of the few languages with official status in more than one Indian state; Telugu is the primary language in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and in the town of Yanam, Puducherry, and is also spoken by significant minorities in Karnataka (8.81%), Tamil Nadu (8.63%), Maharashtra (1.4%), Chhattisgarh (1%), Odisha (1.9%), the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (12.9%), and by the Sri Lankan Gypsy people. It is one of six languages designated a classical language of India by the Government of India.

Telugu ranks third by the number of native speakers in India (74million, 2001 census), fifteenth in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide and is the most widely spoken Dravidian language in the world. It is one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Approximately pre-colonial 10,000 inscriptions exist in the Telugu language.

The speakers of the language call it "Telugu". The older forms of the name include "Telungu", "Tenungu" and "Telinga".

The etymology of Telugu is not certain. Some historical scholars have suggested a derivation from Sanskrit "trilingam", as in "Trilinga Desa", "the country of the three lingas".

Answer the following questions:
1. What language is this about
2. Where does it come from
3. Does it have status in more than one state
4. which ones
5. what towns
6. how many languages were considered a classical language
7. who designated them
8. what does it rank in India
9. how many people are in india
10. how far down the list is it for most spoken languages
11. how many inscriptions exist
12. what is an older form of the language
13. do we know for sure where the language comes from
A:
1. Telugu
2. India
3. Yes
4. Andhra Pradesh
5. Yanam
6. six languages
7. Government of India
8. third
9. 74million
10. fifteenth
11. 10,000
12. Telungu
13. NO