Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Two Chinese farmers who became an overnight hit when their heart-rending version of a famous pop song appeared on the Internet took to the stage in front of thousands of fans in Shanghai last Saturday.

Wang Xu, 44,and Liu Gang, 29, sang "In the Spring" alongside the song's star composer Wang Feng, in front of about 80,000 people at the Shanghai Stadium. The audience buzzed with excitement and let out deafening cheers, the moment as they were introduced on the stage and then when Liu started the first sentence of their parts of the song.

The two migrant workers became stars after singing the tearjerker song during an evening drinking session in a 6-square-meter rented room in a late August evening. A friend recorded the performance on a cell phone and posted it on the Internet.

"If someday I am dead, please bury me in the spring," they sing. Wang's penetrating chorus, delivered with his eyes closed, has moved thousands to tears.

Wang and Liu consider the song a true portrait of lower-class groups like themselves. "With no credit card, no girlfriend, or a home with hot water, but only a guitar, I am singing happily, on streets, under bridges or in wild country, though nobody pays attention to the music," they sing.

To support his wife and two sons, Wang came to Beijing in 2000 from the countryside and has worked as a boiler man, and street peddler, before becoming a medical warehouse keeper, with a monthly pay of around 1,500 yuan. Little is left after he pays 600 yuan for rent and buys food.

Liu came to Beijing in 2002. "I wanted to try my luck in the big city, " he said. He had worked as a guard, roadside peddler, and porter, but never had a stable job. Street performing was his main income, even after he married and became a father three years ago.

Wang and Liu are still uncertain where their fame will lead. Wang has started learning to use a computer. They even have a micro blog account to communicate with fans.

1. What is the name of the famous pop song?
2. Who composed it?
3. Who else did he perform with at the stadium?
4. And what are these two known for?
5. Is singing their primary occupation?
6. Who put the video on the web?
7. Are they good singers?
8. How many children does Wang have?
9. Are they boys or girls?
10. When did he come to Beijing?
11. And Liu?
12. Do they know what will happen with their new fame?
13. Have they learned anything new since then?
14. What have they learned?
15. How many people did they perform for at the Stadium?
16. How did the crowd react?
17. Can you give an example of the song's lyrics?
18. How do the two singers view the piece they sang?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. "In the Spring"
2. Wang Feng
3. Wang Xu and Liu Gang
4. singing the tearjerker song during an evening drinking session
5. no
6. a friend
7. yes
8. Ttwo
9. boys
10. 2000
11. 2002
12. no
13. yes
14. learning to use a computer and having a micro blog
15. 80,000
16. buzzed with excitement and let out deafening cheers
17. "If someday I am dead, please bury me in the spring,"
18. a true portrait of lower-class groups like themselves

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Department stores today have sections that sell the following: clothing, furniture, home appliances, toys, cosmetics, gardening, toiletries, sporting goods, do it yourself, paint, and hardware and additionally select other lines of products such as food, books, jewelry, electronics, stationery, photographic equipment, baby products, and products for pets. Customers check out near the front of the store or, alternatively, at sales counters within each department. Some are part of a retail chain of many stores, while others may be independent retailers. In the 1970s, they came under heavy pressure from discounters. Since 2010, they have come under even heavier pressure from online stores such as Amazon.

The origins of the department store lay in the growth of the conspicuous consumer society at the turn of the 19th century. As the Industrial Revolution accelerated economy expansion, the affluent middle-class grew in size and wealth. This urbanized social group, sharing a culture of consumption and changing fashion, was the catalyst for the retail revolution. As rising prosperity and social mobility increased the number of people, especially women (who found they could shop unaccompanied at department stores without damaging their reputation), with disposable income in the late Georgian period, window shopping was transformed into a leisure activity and entrepreneurs, like the potter Josiah Wedgwood, pioneered the use of marketing techniques to influence the prevailing tastes and preferences of society.

1. Who was the potter?
2. What did he pioneer?
3. why?
4. What?
5. What type of business has lots of different sections?
6. Where do customers pay?
7. Or where else?
8. Do they get competition from discount outfits?
9. When did that start?
10. Have conditions improved?
11. WHo is the modern competition?
12. What kind of business is that?
13. When did they start?
14. What revolution spurred the growth?
15. Which social group flourished?
16. Did they cause the changes?
17. Which sex primarily caused this?
18. What could they do that didn't harm their reputation?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Josiah Wedgwood
2. marketing techniques
3. to influence
4. prevailing tastes and preferences of society.
5. Department
6. near the front of the store
7. at sales counters within each department
8. Yes
9. In the 1970s
10. No
11. Amazon
12. online stores
13. at the turn of the 19th century
14. Industrial
15. middle-class
16. Yes
17. women
18. shop unaccompanied

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When Brody Roybal was a baby, he didn't have legs. But that didn't make him feel sad or stop him from trying sports. He tried different kinds of sports. When he tried sled hockey at the age of 7, he loved it. " That was it," says Roybal. He is now 15 and a student in a high school in Chicago. " It's all I wanted to do." Roybal joined a sled hockey team. At the age of 12, he started playing in an adult team. It was much harder for him, but he still worked hard. Now Roybal is a player of the sled hockey team in his country. O' Connor, manager of the team, says Roybal is very good. " Everybody dreams of going to the Olympic Games and winning the game," O' Connor says. " That's something that I couldn't do, but Roybal can. He is lucky and he can go to the next Olympics." It's true that when God closes a door, he opens a window for you.

1. What was wrong with Brody?
2. When did that happen?
3. Was he upset?
4. What did he do?
5. When?
6. What sport?
7. Did he like it?
8. How old is he now?
9. Where is he?
10. Does he still play?
11. Where?
12. When did he start doing that?
13. What kind of team?
14. For kids?
15. Was it easy for him?
16. Is he good?
17. How do you know?
18. Who is that?
19. What does he want to do next?
20. Can he?
21. What does his coach think?
22. Did his coach play in the olympics?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. he didn't have legs
2. when he was a baby,
3. no
4. He tried different kinds of sports.
5. Seven
6. hockey
7. yes
8. 15
9. Chicago
10. yes
11. in his country
12. 12
13. sled hockey
14. no
15. no
16. yes
17. his manager said
18. O' Connor
19. go to the olympics
20. no
21. He is lucky and he can go to the next Olympics."
22. no