Q: CBC Canada , CTV News A group of Canadian kids are spreading a bit of Christmas spirit in Halifax, Nova Scotia, by covering warm clothes around light poles for the city's homeless people to pick up and use. _ was such an unusual sight that locals stopped to take pictures to share on social media . Every year, Tara Atkins-Smith collects warm clothes from her community in order to help the less lucky. This year, since the family was traveling to Halifax with their daughter Jayda and seven of her friends to celebrate her 8thbirthday Tara thought it was the perfect time to teach the chidren a valuable life lesson. The kids spent time handing out coats to the homeless and tied the rest around light poles for others to pick up. Each of the clothes had a tag that read, "I am not lost. If you are caught in the cold, please take me to keep warm. " According to Tara, the experience helped the children better understand the difficult situation of homeless people, who have to brave the cold winter on the streets. "When we got back in the car after an hour on the street, they were all freezing cold and crying for the heater to be on because they were cold , " she said. By next morning, all the jackets, gloves, and scarves on the poles were gone. Photos of the inspriring project have been shared about 8, 000 times on Facebook, and have got over10,000 likes. Tara, who did something similar in Toronto in December last year, says she's already planning next year's coat drive. She hopes that the meaningful thing can spread around the world, and she also wants to add $5 fast food gift card so that the homeless people can also enjoy a hot meal. "We've got help from others when we were in need, and we knew how great it made us feel," said Zackary Atkins, Tara's husband.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who collects warm clothes yearly?
2. Whose birthday was it?
3. How old was she?
4. How many kids were with her?
5. What did they hand out to the less fortunate?
6. What did they do with the rest?
7. Were the coats lost?
8. How long before they got back in the vehicle?
9. Were they burning up?
10. Were any clothes left on the poles when the sun came up?
11. Did take photos of the clothes hanging there?
12. How many people liked them on Facebook?
13. Is Tara planning to do it again next year?
14. Does she want to be the only one doing it?
15. What does she want to add?
16. Why?
17. Who is Tara married to?
18. Where in Nova Scotia did they spread Christmas spirit?
19. Were there tags on the clothes?
20. Who was braving the frigid weather outside?
A: 1. A group of Canadian kids
2. Jayda
3. Eight
4. Seven
5. coats
6. tied the rest around light poles
7. no
8. after an hour
9. no
10. no
11. yes, the locals did
12. 10,000
13. yes
14. no
15. $5 fast food gift card
16. so that the homeless people can also enjoy a hot meal.
17. Zackary Atkins
18. Halifax,
19. yes
20. the homeless
Q: "Indeed," George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, " some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home. " But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century,and Americans had already created lightning-bug .But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.

Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug,that is,"to install an alarm". Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others' conversations. Since the 1840s,to bug has long meant" to cheat" , and since the 1940s it has been annoying.

We also know the bug as a _ in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as"little problems and difficulties" that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison" had been up the two previous nights discovering' a bug' in his invented record player."

Answer the following questions:
1. what is the article mostly about?
2. what can a bug refer to?
3. who wrote bugs in his diary?
4. what year?
5. Do Englishmen still use the word?
6. what other things can a bug be besides a person or an insect?
7. like what for example?
8. what is a small eaves-dropping instrument called?
9. what are bugs in the context of computers?
10. what inventor explained it that way?
A: 1. bugs
2. it could be a person
3. George Washington
4. 1785
5. no
6. a machine or an object
7. a bug-shaped car.
8. a bug!
9. little problems and difficulties
10. Thomas Edison
Q: (CNN) -- At an auction at a gallery in New York recently, a piece of artwork sold for a higher price than had been anticipated by the auctioneers: $4,080.

It wasn't a very big piece of art -- just 8-by-10 inches. Technically, it wasn't even art. It was a glossy black-and-white photograph. It had a slight imperfection: there were staple holes in the upper left-hand corner.

Someone had written all over the front of the photograph. The person who had scrawled on it was, in fact, the subject of the photograph. He had written:

"To Patricia Keating, with very best wishes, John Kennedy"

That is what made the photo so valuable to someone: Kennedy had held it in his hands, had run his pen over it. The owners of Swann Galleries, where the signed photo was auctioned, believe that Kennedy had autographed the picture in 1956, when he was a United States senator. The picture itself wasn't worth much; but his signature, personalized to Patricia Keating. ...

"As far as we know, she wasn't anyone famous," Rebecca Weiss, a Swann Galleries employee, told me on the day after the auction. "There's no particular significance to her name."

Then why would someone pay more than $4,000 for the photo?

Weiss told me that the identities of the buyers and sellers at Swann auctions are kept confidential, so she could not disclose who had consigned the photo for sale, or who had purchased it. But she said there is a pretty safe rule of thumb about the sale of autographs of renowned men and women:

Answer the following questions:
1. Who wrote on the image?
2. Whom was it too?
3. Where was it sold?
4. Was the selling price a shock?
5. What was the selling point?
6. Was it a big photo?
7. How big was it?
8. When did he sign it?
9. What was his occupation then?
10. Was patricia famous?
11. Was it release who bought it?
12. Was the photo considered art?
A:
1. John Kennedy
2. Patricia Keating,
3. Swann Galleries
4. Yes.
5. Kennedy had held it in his hands
6. No.
7. 8-by-10 inches.
8. 1956
9. A United States senator.
10. No
11. No.
12. No