Q: Hello Sandy, We have just returned from our holiday. We went with our friends Edward Smith and his wife Tina to the Yorkshire Moors. This is a beautiful place. It is a natural park. There are lots of places to walk on the tops of the hills, miles of grassland with no people, just sheep and birds. Edward, who had just come out of hospital, could not walk as far as be used to. However this meant that we walked in the mornings, and then stopped at a cafe for lunch each day, before returning to the place we live. Edward and I slept in front of the fire all afternoon, while the ladies went for another walk. Very pleasant! I have taken lots of photos from the place we live, across the valley below us, of the morning sunrise, and the mist in the valley. Also, in England, the old steam powered trains are very popular. I have taken many photos of the train and from it. Yesterday we had the first snow of this winter. It is very early (we usually expect snow in January). It rained all day, then snowed in the evening. Today we have bright sunshine! Both Jenny and I are well I don't know if I told you, in the last e-mail, that Jenny is now working in a hotel. Although she has to work hard, people there are nice and she is enjoying the work. Please write to us to tell us your news. Yours, Victor

Answer the following questions:
1. Where did the writer of the letter go on vacation?
2. Who did he go with?
3. What were their names?
4. Which of them had been unwell?
5. Was he able to walk well?
6. What did they do in the mornings?
7. What did the men do in the afternoon?
8. What did the women do while they did that?
9. Where did they eat?
10. What was below where they stayed?
11. Did the narrator take pictures of it?
12. What else did he photograph?
13. Were they common there?
14. What is his wife's name?
A: 1. Yorkshire Moors
2. friends
3. Edward Smith and his wife Tina
4. Edward
5. No
6. walked
7. slept
8. went for another walk
9. a cafe
10. valley
11. Yes
12. old steam powered trains
13. Yes
14. Jenny
Q: Parents have widely different views on the problem of pocket money. Four new fathers were asked this question and this is how they answered.

Ashish Khanna: Although many argue that pocket money helps develop children's sense of value, I don't agree. I wouldn't give my child any pocket money. First of all, I never got pocket money and I seem to have a good value for money. If my child ever needed something and I felt it was a reasonable request, I would buy it for him.

Sharad Sanghi: No, I wouldn't give my child pocket money because I don't want to create the perception of "her" money and "my" money. Besides, if I refuse to buy her something that I think is bad for her, she may buy it with her pocket money _ In this way, I would lose control over my child's requests. I feel it also encourages children to care more about money than anything else. I don't want my child to start judging other children by the amount of money or pocket money they have.

Rakesh Shah: Yes, I would give my child pocket money because I feel that children should learn to spend money properly. I will give him a fixed amount every month and if he spends the money before the month is over, he will learn a lesson and not spend money so freely. He will learn what his limitations are and feel the difficulty when he has to pay for something that is over his own pocket.

Rajiv Patel: Yes, I would give my child pocket money because it is important that he learns to manage money. But I would not give it to him on a weekly or monthly basis. He would have to earn it. If he helped me finish some of my jobs or helped his mother with housework, I would reward him. This helps him realize that "money does not grow on trees" and it requires hard work to earn money.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who has different views on pocket money?
2. How many fathers were asked about it?
3. Name one?
4. Another?
5. Another?
6. Last one?
7. Does Ashish think pocket money is a good idea?
8. What do many say that it helps develop?
9. Would he give his kid pocket money?
10. What about Sharad?
11. Why?
12. What does he also feel?
13. What does he not want his child to do?
14. What does Rajiv think?
15. Why?
16. Would he give it to him on a scheduled basis?
17. When would he give it to him?
18. What does Rakesh think?
19. Why?
20. Would he give it to him on a scheduled basis?
A: 1. Parents
2. Four
3. Ashish Khanna
4. Rakesh Shah
5. Sharad Sanghi
6. Rajiv Patel
7. No
8. Children's sense of value
9. No
10. No
11. Because he doesn't want to create the perception of "her" money and "my" money.
12. It encourages children to care more about money than anything else.
13. To start judging other children by the amount of money or pocket money they have.
14. He would give his child pocket money
15. Because it is important that he learns to manage money.
16. No
17. He would have to earn it.
18. He would give his child pocket money
19. He feels that children should learn to spend money properly.
20. Yes
Q: 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.

Answer the following questions:
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?
A:
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