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Some years ago, Wang Baoqiang was a nobody to most Chinese people. However, he is now a household film star in China.

Wang is the youngest child of a poor family in Hebei Province. Dreaming of becoming an actor, he left home at the age of 8 to study kung fu at Shaolin Temple, since kung-fu actors seemed to appear most often on the big screen.

At 14, he moved to Beijing for his acting career for the first time, with little money in his pocket. He worked at a construction site for 20 to 25 yuan per day, and spent his free time standing in front of the Beijing Film Studio, eager to be chosen as temporary actors. This was the hardest time for the boy. His opportunity finally came one day after he went for a role in the movie "Blind Shaft" . He was chosen to play a young coal miner. The movie won him three prizes in Thailand, France and Taiwan. But his success didn't make any difference to his life.

That year, he went home for the Spring Festival. He gave his family his earnings from the movie, around $ 250 and then returned to Beijing with 500 yuan, the same amount he had when he first came to the city. His life was as simple as before.

Thanks to his natural performance in "Blind Shaft", he was invited by the famous director Feng Xiaogang to act in the film "A World Without Thieves" in 2004, which made him famous immediately. People called him "Shagen", the name of his character in the movie.

Wang's work, "Soldiers Sortie" has made him the most popular actor on the Chinese mainland. For the actor, it's a dream coming true.

"Dreams come true. I think my life is exactly a course of pursuing dreams. No matter how tough one thing is,I can make it as long as I put great effort into it. "he said.
1. Where was Wang born?
2. To a weathly family?
3. Is he a nobody?
4. How about now?
5. what is he?
6. where?
7. is he an only child?
8. Where did he go at 8?
9. why?
10. Where?
11. When was the hardest time for him?
12. why?
13. doing what?
14. was he?
15. for what?
16. Did he do well in themovie?
17. how?
18. What made him famous?
19. How did he feel about dreams?
20. how?

Numbered answers:
1. Hebei Province.
2. no
3. Some years ago
4. no
5. a household film star
6. China.
7. no
8. he left home
9. to study kung fu
10. at Shaolin Temple
11. when he was 14
12. spent his free time standing in front of the Beijing Film Studio,
13. eager to be chosen as temporary actors
14. yes
15. He was chosen to play a young coal miner
16. yes
17. The movie won him three prizes in Thailand, France and Taiwan.
18. Soldiers Sortie
19. Dreams come true
20. put great effort into it

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Editor's note: This story originally appeared on CNN.com on October 20. Barack Obama mentioned Ann Nixon Cooper on Tuesday in his presidential victory speech.

Ann Nixon Cooper, 106 years old, lived during a time when blacks and women did not have the right to vote.

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Ann Nixon Cooper, 106 years old, has seen presidents come and go in her lifetime and has outlived most of them. On a sunny fall morning, she left her weathered but well-kept Tudor home in Atlanta, Georgia, to vote early -- this time for Barack Obama.

The African-American centenarian remembers a time not long ago when she was barred from voting because of her race. Now she hopes to see the day that Obama is elected as the nation's first black president.

"I ain't got time to die," Cooper said with a smile.

"Even if he didn't win, I was happy for him just to be nominated," said the former socialite. "The first black president -- isn't that something, at 106 years old?" Watch Obama say 'Yes we can' "

At the Fulton County government center, Cooper was greeted by Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin.

"I thought that I would accompany her today to support her, but also to say to all people that this is a choice we have," Franklin said.

"As all Americans, we should cherish the right to vote and take every opportunity we have to vote our opinions. She is an inspiration to me personally, but she is also quite an inspiration to all Atlanta." Watch Cooper talk about her life and experiences "
1. where did this story originally appear?
2. when?
3. who mention ann nixon cooper?
4. during what speech?
5. when?
6. what day of the week?
7. how old was ann nixon cooper?
8. why was she stopped from voting?
9. what did ann say she does not have time for?
10. would she have been happy if Obama did not win?
11. where was cooper greeted by the mayor?
12. in what city?
13. what is the mayor's name?

Numbered answers:
1. CNN.com
2. October 20
3. Barack Obama
4. presidential victory speech.
5. October 20
6. Tuesday
7. 106 years old
8. lived during a time when blacks and women did not have the right to vote.
9. to die
10. Yes, she was happy for him just to be nominated,
11. Fulton County government center
12. Atlanta
13. Shirley Franklin

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CHAPTER XV.

During the remainder of the day on which George had left Granpere, the hours did not fly very pleasantly at the Lion d'Or. Michel Voss had gone to his niece immediately upon his return from his walk, intending to obtain a renewed pledge from her that she would be true to her engagement. But he had been so full of passion, so beside himself with excitement, so disturbed by all that he had heard, that he had hardly waited with Marie long enough to obtain such pledge, or to learn from her that she refused to give it. He had only been able to tell her that if she hesitated about marrying Adrian she should never look upon his face again; and then without staying for a reply he had left her. He had been in such a tremor of passion that he had been unable to demand an answer. After that, when George was gone, he kept away from her during the remainder of the morning. Once or twice he said a few words to his wife, and she counselled him to take no farther outward notice of anything that George had said to him. 'It will all come right if you will only be a little calm with her,' Madame Voss had said. He had tossed his head and declared that he was calm;--the calmest man in all Lorraine. Then he had come to his wife again, and she had again given him some good practical advice. 'Don't put it into her head that there is to be a doubt,' said Madame Voss.
1. Who left Granpere?
2. Did he had good time afterwards?
3. Who is Granpere's uncle?
4. Does Granpere have an aunt?
5. Is Michel Voss related to Granpere?
6. What he tried to get from his niece?
7. Did he get that?
8. Why?
9. Was he overwhelmed?
10. Why?
Numbered answers:
1. George
2. No
3. unknown
4. unknown
5. unknown
6. intending to obtain a renewed pledge from her that she would be true to her engagement.
7. No
8. he left her
9. Yes
10. But he had been so full of passion, so beside himself with excitement, so disturbed by all that he had heard