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Life are always full of stress these days. How do you usually deal with your stress? Do you know doing housework is helpful in dealing with stress? In fact, doing something like washing dirty clothes may really make people relaxed. "Doing some housework such as washing windows or ironing clothes is a good way to face our stress without taking any medicine," says Carol Clark, a successful psychologist in New York. She often advises people who are under lots of stress to try doing housework every day. "While washing something," she says, "you can imagine you're washing away some trouble in your life." Do people all agree with her idea? Here are some ideas about it. "Housework is the main reason for the stress in my life," says Linda in France. "Get me out of doing the housework and then I'll really be relaxed." Gary is a single father. "So, a man pays a psychologist $200 an hour for his problem about stress. However, he is just told to go back home and do some housework. I really don't know who is crazier, the psychologist or the man!
1. What person mentioned says that housework is useful in reducing stress?
2. Who is one person mentioned that says that housework increases stress?
3. Where is Linda from?
4. Who is another person mentioned that says that housework increases stress?
5. Does Gary have a child?
6. Does Gary have a spouse?
7. What is a specific type of housework that Carol Clark says reduces stress?
8. Where is she from?
9. What is her job title?
10. Do the people mentioned in this article agree about housework and how it affects stress?

Numbered answers:
1. Carol Clark
2. Linda
3. France
4. Gary
5. yes
6. no
7. washing windows or ironing clothes
8. New York
9. psychologist
10. no

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Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android's user interface is mainly based on direct manipulation, using touch gestures that loosely correspond to real-world actions, such as swiping, tapping and pinching, to manipulate on-screen objects, along with a virtual keyboard for text input. In addition to touchscreen devices, Google has further developed Android TV for televisions, Android Auto for cars, and Android Wear for wrist watches, each with a specialized user interface. Variants of Android are also used on game consoles, digital cameras, PCs and other electronics.

Initially developed by Android Inc., which Google bought in 2005, Android was unveiled in 2007, along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliancea consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. Beginning with the first commercial Android device in September 2008, the operating system has gone through multiple major releases, with the current version being 8.0 "Oreo", released in August 2017. Android applications ("apps") can be downloaded from the Google Play store, which features over 2.7million apps as of February 2017. Android has been the best-selling OS on tablets since 2013, and runs on the vast majority of smartphones. , Android has two billion monthly active users, and it has the largest installed base of any operating system.
1. What bought google?
2. When?
3. What was unveiled in 2007
4. What is Android?
5. based on what?
6. Was it designed primarily for puppies?
7. What was it designed for
8. Does it use touch gestures?
9. What does it use for text input?
10. What are variants of Android used on
11. When was a consortium founded?
12. What was it called
13. What is it devoted to
14. What was released in September 2008
Numbered answers:
1. Android Inc.
2. 2005
3. Android
4. a mobile operating system developed by Google,
5. the Linux kernel
6. no
7. touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets
8. yes
9. a virtual keyboard
10. game consoles, digital cameras, PCs and other electronics
11. 2007
12. the Open Handset Alliancea consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies
13. to advancing open standards for mobile device
14. the first commercial Android device

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Li Siyi, a student from Jinan Foreign Language School, takes up a new habit. She refuses to believe everything that she reads. "Not everything in books is true," she said. Many other students in her school think the same thing as Li. They learned this through finding a mistake in their Chinese textbook. They learned a Tang poem, Ci Beigu Shanxia, last year. There was a picture that showed a boat in full sail on a river. "But according to the famous line from the poem, feng zheng yifan xuan, the sail shouldn't be spread ," said Zhang Jiayi, Li's classmate. To get the right answer, the students turned to their Chinese teacher, Liu Yan. Liu and the students looked up books, searched on the Internet and made sure that the People's Education Press had really made a mistake about the picture. The students wrote a letter to them about the mistake. "I think my students did a right thing but I never expected a reply," said Liu. "I took it as a way of letting them know the importance of spirit of questioning." To their surprise, one month later, they got the reply from Gu Zhenbiao, the expert of Chinese textbooks in middle schools. Gu said sorry for the mistake and he also said he really thinks the students are very great. When Liu read the letter loudly to all the students, everyone was excited. "We are very happy we have our own ideas!" said Li.
1. what is Li Siyi ?
2. from ?
3. what did ithey take ?
4. did she find a mistake ?
5. who did they turn too ?
6. what did they learn ?
7. did they write a letter ?
8. who is Gu Zhenbiao ?
9. how long did they wait for a reply?
10. who reasd the letter loudly ?

Numbered answers:
1. a student
2. Jinan Foreign Language School,
3. a new habit
4. yes
5. Liu Yan. Liu
6. a Tang poem
7. yes
8. the expert of Chinese textbooks
9. one month
10. Liu

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I'm here to tell you the story of a robot named Carl. He came from a far away land known as Factory. Carl was sad because he was missing a part called a tire. He also needed a sun gatherer. But, the tire was more important. Once Carl got all these parts he could travel to his new home in the nation of Lab and the city of Office. It was a tricky thing to get there with missing parts. Just as he had given up hope Carl got a message from Mr. X saying the new parts were ready to be delivered. This made the robot very happy. The parts arrived a few days later and Carl put them in with 2 days of work. After this Carl began to travel the last bit of his goal to get to his new job. After this Carl took 10 days to get to Lab.
1. What part did the robot need?
2. What part was more important than that?
3. Why did he want that?
4. where did he come from?
5. what was his name?
6. What city was his new home in?
7. in what country?
8. was he worried that he wasn't going to receive the parts?
9. who phoned to say the parts were ready?
10. how did this make him feel?
11. how long did it take for the parts to be received after he was notified of their arrival?
12. who installed them?
13. how long did it take?
14. what did he do after he was finished?
15. where was the new job?
16. how long did it take to get there?
Numbered answers:
1. a sun gatherer
2. the tire
3. so he could travel to his new home
4. a far away land known as Factory
5. Carl
6. Office
7. Lab
8. no
9. Mr. X
10. very happy
11. a few days later
12. Carl
13. 2 days
14. traveled to get to his new job.
15. Lab
16. 10 days