Problem: (CNN) -- Educators and policymakers have long dreamed of providing universal, low cost, first-class higher education. Their wish may come true soon thanks to an unlikely source: Silicon Valley.

The mecca of the technology universe is in the process of revolutionizing higher education in a way that educators, colleges and universities cannot, or will not.

One of the men responsible for what may be an Athens-like renaissance is Sebastian Thrun, Google's vice president and pioneer in artificial intelligence and robotics. Known in science circles for his engineering feats -- like Stanley, the self-driving car -- Thrun is using his technological prowess to make quality higher education available to the world. I recently interviewed him on my radio show, "Morning In America."

Last year, while teaching a graduate level artificial intelligence class at Stanford University, Thrun lamented that his course could only reach 200 students in the suburbs of Palo Alto. So, he decided to offer his own free online class, with the same homework, quizzes and tests that he gives to Stanford students.

He announced the proposal with a single e-mail. Before he knew it, he had a flood of takers. "Usually I reach about 200 students and now I reach 160,000," said Thrun incredulously. "In my entire life of education I didn't have as much an impact on people as I had in these two months."

By utilizing online videos and educational resources, Thrun's class was being accessed by students from all corners of the world. In fact, the students themselves translated the class for free from English into 44 languages.
1. What location did the innovation in the article come from?
2. And what field is the innovation in?
3. Who was interviewed by the writer?
4. What's his job?
5. Is he famous for anything else?
6. Like what?
7. What is Stanley?
8. What show was the interview on?
9. Is that a TV show?
10. What kind then?
11. Where does Thrun teach?
12. What is his course about?
13. Is it for undergraduates?
14. How many students at the university could take the course?
15. Where is the university located?
16. What did Thrun do to change the situation?
17. How many students can take it now?
18. How did the tell people about the idea?
19. How long has he been giving the course online?
20. How many languages could students take the course in?
Answer: 1. Silicon Valley
2. education
3. Sebastian Thurn
4. Google's vice president
5. yes
6. Stanley
7. a self-driving ca
8. Morning In America
9. no
10. a radio show
11. Stanford University
12. artificial intelligence
13. no
14. 200
15. Palo Alto
16. decided to give online class
17. 160,000
18. e-mail
19. unknown
20. 45

Problem: CHAPTER XIII.

MINO

The days went by, and she received no sign. Was he going to ignore her, was he going to take no further notice of her secret? A dreary weight of anxiety and acrid bitterness settled on her. And yet Ursula knew she was only deceiving herself, and that he would proceed. She said no word to anybody.

Then, sure enough, there came a note from him, asking if she would come to tea with Gudrun, to his rooms in town.

'Why does he ask Gudrun as well?' she asked herself at once. 'Does he want to protect himself, or does he think I would not go alone?' She was tormented by the thought that he wanted to protect himself. But at the end of all, she only said to herself:

'I don't want Gudrun to be there, because I want him to say something more to me. So I shan't tell Gudrun anything about it, and I shall go alone. Then I shall know.'

She found herself sitting on the tram-car, mounting up the hill going out of the town, to the place where he had his lodging. She seemed to have passed into a kind of dream world, absolved from the conditions of actuality. She watched the sordid streets of the town go by beneath her, as if she were a spirit disconnected from the material universe. What had it all to do with her? She was palpitating and formless within the flux of the ghost life. She could not consider any more, what anybody would say of her or think about her. People had passed out of her range, she was absolved. She had fallen strange and dim, out of the sheath of the material life, as a berry falls from the only world it has ever known, down out of the sheath on to the real unknown.
1. what was she waiting for?
2. what did she think he might be doing?
3. what was she wondering if he would notice?
4. how was she feeling?
5. what is her name?
6. was she being honest with herself?
7. who did she tell?
8. what did she receive?
9. was the not an invitation?
10. for what?
Answer: 1. a sign
2. ignoring her
3. her secret
4. anxious
5. Ursula
6. No
7. nobody
8. a note
9. Yes
10. to tea

Problem: Mary was a little girl who loved to sew. She liked to sew dresses, shirts, and skirts but Mary hated to sew quilts. She didn't like anything about sewing quilts and blankets because it took too long. One quilt or blanket took a week to make, when a skirt or shirt took one night! Mary's mother didn't understand why Mary didn't like to sew quilts and blankets because Mary's mother loved to!

Mary was a normal little girl even if her friends didn't think so all the time. Mary's friends liked to play games and play outside but all Mary liked was to sew. She woke up and she began to sew. She only stopped to eat and use the bathroom. Mary's father was very worried about Mary. He said that little girls needed to laugh and play, not sew all the time.

One day Mary's father took Mary's sewing things and gave them to the poor children. "No more sewing, Mary!" He said. He wanted her to go laugh and play with her friends instead of sew but instead of going outside to play she ran into her room and cried. Mary was very sad that she couldn't sew any more. Soon her friends came over to see why Mary hadn't come over to play like her father said she would. When they saw her crying on her bed they had to think of a way to cheer her up. Billy said that maybe they could let her sew at their houses. Abby thought it was a great idea. So then all Mary's friends bought sewing things with their money so that Mary would be happy again. When Mary's father saw Mary go to one of her friend's house he was very happy. Soon everyone was happy again.
1. Was mary odd?
2. Who were her sewing things given to?
3. how many friends came over?
4. who gave her things away?
5. why?
6. What did she like to sew?
7. what about blankets?
8. Did her mom buy her new sewing items?
9. Who did?
10. Did that make her feel better?
11. What did she do when she woke up?
12. What took too long to sew?
13. did her mother agree?
14. Who thought Billy had a great idea?
15. what was the idea?
16. Was Mary laughing and plying on her bed?
Answer:
1. Yes
2. poor children
3. all Mary's friends
4. Mary's father
5. He wanted her to be with her friends
6. dresses, shirts, and skirts
7. No
8. No
9. Mary's friends
10. Yes
11. she began to sew
12. quilts and blankets
13. No
14. Abby
15. maybe they could let her sew at their houses
16. crying