Q: How much sleep do we need? We are all different. Some people need only three hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Americans sleep an average of seven to eight hours a night. After the age of fifty the average sleep time goes down to 6.5 hours a night. Most people have a bad night when they can not sleep. About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people can not fall sleep. This problem is called insomnia. This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia. Some of these people had special ideas to another to make them sleep. Benjaming Franklin, the famous stateman and inventor ,had four beds. He moved from one to another to fall asleep. King Lousis XIV of France had 13 beds and hoped that he could fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous American writer, had a different way. He lay on his side on the end of the bed!

Answer the following questions:
1. How many hours of sleep do Americans average?
2. does everyone sleep this amount?
3. Do you sleep more the older you get?
4. less?
5. how much?
6. At what age does that happen?
7. Do americans have sleep problems?
8. how many?
9. what is this diagnosed as?
10. Is that new?
11. how do you know?
12. like who?
13. did he try anything to sleep?
14. what?
15. did he sleep in them all?
16. how?
17. did anyone have more than 4?
18. who?
19. how many?
20. Anyone else?
A: 1. seven to eight hours
2. no
3. no
4. yes
5. 6.5 hours
6. After the age of fifty
7. yes
8. one in three Americans
9. insomnia
10. no
11. famous people in history had insomnia.
12. Benjaming Franklin
13. yes
14. he had 4 beds
15. yes
16. moved from one to another
17. yes
18. King Lousis XIV
19. 13 beds
20. Mark Twain
Q: The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways. In 1963 their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania", and as the group's music grew in sophistication in subsequent years, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, they came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the counterculture of the 1960s.

The Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960, with Stuart Sutcliffe initially serving as bass player. The core of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them in 1962. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act, and producer George Martin guided and developed their recordings, greatly expanding their popularity in the United Kingdom after their first hit, "Love Me Do", in late 1962. They acquired the nickname "the Fab Four" as Beatlemania grew in Britain the next year, and by early 1964 became international stars, leading the "British Invasion" of the United States pop market. From 1965 onwards, the Beatles produced increasingly innovative recordings, including the albums "Rubber Soul" (1965), "Revolver" (1966), "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967), "The Beatles" (commonly known as the White Album, 1968) and "Abbey Road" (1969). After their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers of varying lengths. McCartney and Starr, the surviving members, remain musically active. Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980, and Harrison died of lung cancer in November 2001.

Answer the following questions:
1. Was Ringo with the band in 1960?
2. What was his instrument?
3. Who was the first drummer in the band?
4. Were The Beatles known for using traditional recording techniques?
5. Did they stick to one type of musical style?
6. Who wrote most of their songs?
7. What was their first hit song?
8. When was that?
9. What was their 1965 album?
10. What was their album the next year?
11. What year was "Abbey Road"?
A: 1. Yes
2. drummer
3. unknown
4. No
5. No
6. Lennon and McCartney
7. "Love Me Do"
8. 1962
9. "Rubber Soul"
10. "Revolver"
11. 1969
Q: Long long ago, there lived two girls named Emily and Tina. Both of them had long black hair and blue eyes. One day while they were playing in the back yard , Emily heard a tinkling sound. She jumped up. "Listen," she told her twin. They listened. The noise came again. This time Tina heard it. She sat up. "It came from over there," She whispered, looking at the zinnias far away. They came near to find it out. Then something flew out, making the same tinkling sound they had heard before. The children looked at one another. "Was it a bee?" asked Tina. "I don't think so," replied Emily. "Do bees make a sound like bells?" "Let's call it the Tinkle Bee anyway," said Tina. Emily nodded, listening with a little difficulty. What had made that noise? The next day, Emily and Tina brought their cookies outside. Tina took her plate by the zinnias. Suddenly she caught something. "Emily!" she called. "I've got the Tinkle Bee!" Emily rushed over. They sat down on the grass. Tina opened her hand very carefully. There was that sound! Something was shining in Tina's hand. They smiled. Then Emily cried, "It's a fairy !" Tina looked down at it in her hand. It looked like a girl. A _ girl with wings! Tina dropped it before she noticed that a wing was torn . The little fairy could not fly away so she took a piece of grass out of the ground and sat on it. Emily and Tina were surprised at what they saw. The fairy turned to Emily and said, "Hello, I am Marabella." Then she said again, "Marabella the Fairy." Emily smiled. "I'm Emily," she said. Tina said, "I'm Tina. Are you really a fairy?" "Oh, yes!" replied Marabella. "I've always been a fairy."

Answer the following questions:
1. What made a tinkling sound?
2. What was the fairy's name?
3. What did Tina and Emily have in common?
4. Were they related?
A:
1. "It's a fairy !"
2. Hello, I am Marabella.
3. Both of them had long black hair and blue eyes.
4. unknown