Q: Bringing a giraffe into the world is _ . A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality of life. In his book,A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson. The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it's sent sprawling . When it doesn't get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there's safety. Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin. Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, "I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they've realized some small parts of what they set out to do ."

1. An author.
2. A View from the Zoo.
3. How a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
4. Get up as quickly as possible.
5. To stay with its group.
6. The mother.
7. Lowers her head long enough to take a quick look.
8. No.
9. Ten feet high.
10. She puts herself directly over her child.
11. Kicks her baby.
12. She wants it to remember how it got up.
13. No.
14. The process is repeated again and again.
15. Michelangelo,
16. Vincent van Gogh.
17. Yes.
18. Sometime in their life have a dream of something.
19. They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere.
20. They've realized some small parts of what they set out to do ."

Numbered questions:
1. Who is Gary Richmond?
2. who wrote what?
3. which is about what?
4. What does a baby giraffe need to learn in the wild?
5. why?
6. who teaches them this lesson?
7. What does she do when the baby is forst born?
8. Is the baby born small?
9. how big?
10. Once the mother looks at the baby, what does she do next?
11. and then?
12. why?
13. does it learn right away?
14. what happens when it doesnt learn?
15. who is the giraffes struggle compared to?
16. any other men?
17. Did these men seem to have anything in common?
18. what is one?
19. and what happens to them?
20. what happens at the end?

Q: Started in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all the colleges and universities in the United States. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard. In the early years, these schools were nearly the same. Only young men went to college. All the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin and Greek. Little was known about science. And few people knew that one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers. In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could study in Harvard's law school. In 1825, besides Latin and Greek, Harvard began to teach modern languages, such as French and German. Soon it began to teach American history. As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them. Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. Most of them are made up of smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning. There's so much to learn that one kind of school can't offer all.

1. Latin and Greek
2. no
3. In 1782
4. 1636
5. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth
6. Harvard
7. ministers or teachers
8. 1782
9. French and German
10. Only young men
11. law school
12. yes
13. smaller schools
14. yes
15. no
16. nearly the same
17. yes
18. yes

Numbered questions:
1. what ancient languages did everyone used to learn?
2. was much known about science?
3. when did they start teaching modern languages at Harvard?
4. what year was Harvard founded?
5. what other schools opened soon after?
6. which is the oldest of all them?
7. what did most people become when they had graduated?
8. what year did Harvard start teaching medicine?
9. what modern languages did they start to teach?
10. in the past, who went to college?
11. besides medicine, what other subjects were offered?
12. did they also teach history?
13. Today, modern colleges are mostly made up of what?
14. are they specialized?
15. can one school offer everything?
16. how similar were Harvard, Yale and Princeton when they opened?
17. did everyone study the same subject?
18. could one school teach everything back then?

Q: Rock and roll music developed in the United States in the early nineteen-fifties. It was based on the music called rhythm and blues that was performed by African American musicians.

Early rock and roll singers developed their own kinds of music. Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, the Beach Boys, and Bob Dylan were the most popular rock and roll musicians in the early 1960's. All were American. Then, in 1964, a new rock and roll group from England invaded America: the Beatles.

Some people say the Beatles' music shook America like an earthquake. The Beatles changed rock and roll forever. Their early songs were influenced by American rock and roll musicians, including Chuck Berry. But the Beatles looked different and sounded different from any musical group before them.

The Beatles released their first album in the United States in 1964, when all of the top five records in America were by the Beatles. In 1967, they released an album called "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." It was one of the first "concept" albums. That is, all the songs were linked by a common story or idea.

The popularity of the Beatles led the way for more rock and roll bands from England to become popular in America. The Rolling Stones was the most important of these bands. The Rolling Stones is one of the few groups from the 1960's that is still performing and recording today. In 1965, the group recorded one of its most famous songs, "Satisfaction".

The musical instrument most linked to rock and roll is the guitar. Experts say Jimi Hendrix was one of the most influential guitar players in rock and roll during the late 1960's. His "Purple Haze" was liked by many people.

By the 1970's, rock and roll music became known as rock music. It expanded into many new forms. For example, there was country rock, hard rock, acid rock, and heavy metal rock. Punk rock, jazz rock, and glitter rock.

In the middle 1970's, experts say rock music regained some of the energy of early rock and roll. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band became popular with their album "Born to Run". Springsteen's music was like the lively rock and roll music of the early nineteen-sixties. Many of his songs were about social issues. He sang about the effects of unemployment and the war in Vietnam.

1. rhythm and blues
2. African American
3. 1964
4. yes
5. 1964
6. yes
7. The Rolling Stones
8. guitar
9. Jimi Hendrix
10. 1970's
11. many
12. middle 1970's
13. Born to Run
14. like the lively rock and roll music of the early nineteen-sixties
15. social issues
16. effects of unemployment and the war in Vietnam
17. early nineteen-fifties
18. yes

Numbered questions:
1. What was it based on
2. What nationality were the musicians
3. what year did the england group come in
4. were they different
5. where was their first album released
6. were they the top 5 albums
7. what popular group came next
8. what instrument was famous in it
9. who was the best
10. what year did rock n roll change name
11. how many different types came about
12. when did it get its energy back
13. what album helped bring it back
14. how would you describe his music
15. what were they about
16. what else
17. what year did the music first come to be
18. did early singer make their own kinds of music