Q: The Chinese-born American architect Ieoh Ming Pei is one of the most creative architects of our times. He has incorporated both eastern and western ideas into his designs.

Ieoh Ming Pei was born in Guangzhou, China on April 26, 1917. His father was a famous banker. In 1935, at the age of 17, he came to the United States to study architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1942, he entered the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy selected Pei to design the Kennedy library. After that he became well-known all over the world. People named it one of the Ten Best Buildings in the United States. In 1968, Pei started work on the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C. Over one million people visited the building during its first 50 days in existence.

Following the East Wing project Pei's fame has continued to grow widely. In 1983, French President commissioned Pei to help make the Louvre more modern. Ten years later, the completion of Pei's glass pyramid at the Louvre created a new historic landmark for Paris. Pei described it as, "the greatest challenge and greatest accomplishment of my career." At Fragrant Hill, a 300-room hotel in the Chinese capital, Pei has attempted to bring to his native China his often-quoted "third way of making buildings." Avoiding both a complete copying of traditional Chinese motifs as well as the modernism of the West, Pei has managed, at Fragrant Hill, to make one of his most eloquent statements.

Pei has designed nearly 50 projects in the United States and abroad. About half of these projects have won major awards. Pei has been awarded the highest honors from nations over the world. In 1990, Pei was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President George Bush for his contributions to world peace and service to the US government.

Answer the following questions:
1. What did leog Ming Pei do for a living?
2. Where was he born?
3. What building made him famous worldwide?
4. What year was he chosen to design that?
5. How many projects has he done in total?
6. What major work did he do in Paris?
7. How did Pei feel about that job?
A: 1. Architect
2. China
3. The Kennedy library
4. In 1964
5. Nearly 50
6. The Louvre
7. The greatest challenge and accomplishment of his career.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Relatively insensitive film, with a correspondingly lower speed index, requires more exposure to light to produce the same image density as a more sensitive film, and is thus commonly termed a slow film. Highly sensitive films are correspondingly termed fast films. In both digital and film photography, the reduction of exposure corresponding to use of higher sensitivities generally leads to reduced image quality (via coarser film grain or higher image noise of other types). In short, the higher the sensitivity, the grainier the image will be. Ultimately sensitivity is limited by the quantum efficiency of the film or sensor.

The Warnerke Standard Sensitometer consisted of a frame holding an opaque screen with an array of typically 25 numbered, gradually pigmented squares brought into contact with the photographic plate during a timed test exposure under a phosphorescent tablet excited before by the light of a burning Magnesium ribbon. The speed of the emulsion was then expressed in 'degrees' Warnerke (sometimes seen as Warn. or W.) corresponding with the last number visible on the exposed plate after development and fixation. Each number represented an increase of 1/3 in speed, typical plate speeds were between 10 and 25 Warnerke at the time.

1. What is the speed of a insensitive film?
2. What does it require more of?
3. What is another name for it?
4. What is a fast film?
5. What is a sensitive film?
6. So what happens if it has higher sensitivity?
7. How does that do to the image?
8. What causes the image to be grainier?
9. What is sensitivity limited by?
10. What did the Warnerke Standard Sensitometer consist of?
11. What else did it have?
12. What did it connect with?
13. What was the speed expressed in?
14. Was there an abbreviation for it?
15. What did each number represent?
16. An increase of 1/3 represented what?
17. What were typical plate speeds?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. lower speed
2. exposure to light
3. slow film.
4. no
5. fast films
6. reduced image quality
7. via coarser film grain or higher image noise of other types
8. high sensitivity
9. the quantum efficiency of the film or sensor.
10. a frame
11. an opaque screen with an array of typically 25 numbered, gradually pigmented squares
12. a photographic plate during a timed test exposure under a phosphorescent table
13. degrees
14. Warn. or W
15. corresponding with the last number visible on the exposed plate after development and fixation.
16. Each number
17. 10 and 25 Warnerke

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXVII. CYTHEREA'S BOWER.

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By twelve o'clock on the ensuing day Mr. Belamour, with Eugene and Jumbo, was set down at a hotel near Whitehall, to secure apartments, while the Major went on to demand his daughter from Lady Belamour, taking with him Betty, whom he allowed to be a much better match for my Lady than he could be. Very little faith in his cousin Urania remained to him in the abstract, yet even now he could not be sure that she would not talk him over and hoodwink him in any actual encounter. Sir Amyas likewise accompanied him, both to gratify his own anxiety and to secure admission. The young man still looked pale and worn with restless anxiety; but he had, in spite of remonstrances, that morning discarded his sling, saying that he should return to his quarters. Let his Colonel do his worst then; he had still more liberty than if compelled to return to his mother's house.

Lady Belamour had, on her second marriage, forsaken her own old hereditary mansion in the Strand, where Sir Jovian had died, and which, she said, gave her the vapours. Mr. Wayland, whose wealth far exceeded her own, had purchased one of the new houses in Hanover Square, the fashionable quarter and very much admired; but the Major regretted the gloomy dignity of the separate enclosure and walled court of Delavie House, whereas the new one, in modern fashion, had only an area and steps between the front and the pavement.

1. who was richer than Lady Belamour?
2. how many people were at a hotel?
3. what time were they there?
4. why were they there?
5. who did the major want?
6. please give the name of one of the people at the hotel
7. and the other two please
8. did the major go alone?
9. how many did he go with?
10. who?
11. why?
12. would you say Urania and Lady Balamour are one person?
13. how is she related to him?
14. who did Amyas go with?
15. why?
16. who died in a mansion?
17. the hotel was close to what?
18. where was the mansion that Jovian died?
19. where did Wayland buy a house?
20. what did the major not like about Delavie House?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Mr. Wayland
2. Three
3. By twelve o'clock
4. to secure apartments
5. his daughter
6. Jumbo
7. Mr. Belamour and Eugene
8. no
9. just one
10. Betty,
11. she was a much better match
12. yes
13. cousin
14. Major
15. to gratify his own anxiety
16. Sir Jovian
17. Whitehall
18. the Strand,
19. Hanover Square
20. the gloomy dignity