Q: Wang Jiaming from Beijing Chenjinglun High School says he is a lucky boy. He's happy that he's sitting the senior high school entrance exam in 2014 instead of 2016. On Oct 22, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education announced that, from 2016, the English scores in the senior high school entrance exam will be reduced from 120 to 100. Of the 100 points, the listening ability scores will increase to 50. Meanwhile, the points for Chinese will increase from 120 to 150. "The change won't affect me. I feel so lucky because English is my strongest subject," said Wang. Why such a change? It places the importance on Chinese in our study, and reduces students' stress, said Li Yi, spokesman of the commission. "The change will also push us to pay attention to the practical usage of English," said Li. "Students will be encouraged to learn to understand English menus and read English news on mobile phones." There isn't news that other cities will have the same change. But several places are making changes to English tests in the college entrance exams. For example, Shandong is considering taking out the listening part of the English exam in its college entrance exams. But, "being tested for less points doesn't mean the subject _ ," Bai Ping wrote in China Daily. English has long been the world's most commonly used language. Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji once said: "In a globalizing economy , if you cannot communicate with foreigners, how can one be part of the world economy?" Wang Jiaming said he understood the change. "Chinese, not English, is our mother tongue ," he said. "But still, I think English is both interesting and useful."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is happy he's taking the exam in 2014?
2. Where does he go to school?
3. When did the Commission of Education announce changes to the exam?
4. When do the changes start?
5. Which section of the test scores will be reduced?
6. From 120 to what?
7. Will the listening ability scores increase?
8. Which section will increase from 120 to 150?
9. Will the change affect him?
10. Why?
11. How does that make him feel?
12. Who is the spokesperson for the commission?
13. Man or woman?
14. What will the changes encourage the students to learn?
15. Are other cities making the change?
16. What about college entrance exams?
17. Which city is taking out the listening part?
A: 1. Wang Jiaming
2. Beijing Chenjinglun
3. 2016.
4. 2016
5. senior high school entrance exam
6. 100
7. to 50
8. points for Chinese
9. won't affect him
10. English is his strongest subject
11. unknown
12. Li Yi
13. unknown
14. to learn to understand English menus and read English news on mobile phones
15. no, There isn't news that other cities will have the same change
16. several places are making changes to English tests in the college entrance exams
17. Shandong is considering
Q: CHAPTER V

The Vacation was over, and Vivian returned to Burnsley Vicarage. He bowed cavalierly to Mr. Dallas on his arrival, and immediately sauntered up into the school-room, where he found a tolerable quantity of wretches looking as miserable as schoolboys who have left their pleasant homes generally do for some four-and-twenty hours. "How d'ye do, Grey? How d'ye do, Grey?" burst from a knot of unhappy fellows, who would have felt quite delighted had their newly arrived co-mate condescended to entertain them, as usual, with some capital good story fresh from town. But they were disappointed.

"We can make room for you at the fire, Grey," said Theophilus

"I thank you, I am not cold."

"I suppose you know that Poynings and Etherege don't come back, Grey?"

"Everybody knew that last half:" and so he walked on.

"Grey, Grey!" halloed King, "don't go into the dining-room; Mallett is there alone, and told us not to disturb him. By Jove, the fellow is going in: there will be a greater row this half between Grey and Mallett than ever."

Days, the heavy first days of the half, rolled on, and all the citizens of the little commonwealth had returned.

"What a dull half this will be!" said Eardley; "how one misses Grey's set! After all, they kept the school alive: Poynings was a first-rate fellow, and Etherege so deuced good-natured! I wonder whom Grey will crony with this half; have you seen him and Dallas speak together yet? He cut the Doctor quite dead at Greek to-day."

Answer the following questions:
1. who said dont go in the dining room?
2. who is in there?
3. what did Mallett tell them?
4. why did Vivian return?
5. where did he return to?
6. why were the fellows disappointed?
7. who bowed?
8. to who?
9. why didnt Grey want to sit by the fire?
10. who kept the school alive?
A: 1. King
2. Mallett
3. not to disturb him
4. Vacation was over
5. Burnsley Vicarage
6. they left their homes
7. Vivian
8. Mr. Dallas
9. he was not cold
10. Grey's set
Q: CHAPTER XX.

THE FIRST EASTERN WAR.

215-183.

Scipio remained in Africa till he had arranged matters and won such a claim to Massinissa's gratitude that this king of Numidia was sure to watch over the interests of Rome. Scipio then returned home, and entered Rome with a grand triumph, all the nobler for himself that he did not lead Hannibal in his chains. He had been too generous to demand that so brave an enemy should be delivered up to him. He received the surname of Africanus, and was one of the most respected and beloved of Romans. He was the first who began to take up Greek learning and culture, and to exchange the old Roman ruggedness for the graces of philosophy and poetry. Indeed the Romans were beginning to have much to do with the Greeks, and the war they entered upon now was the first for the sake of spreading their own power. All the former ones had been in self-defence, and the new one did in fact spring out of the Punic war, for the Carthaginians had tried to persuade Philip, king of Macedon, to follow in the track of Pyrrhus, and come and help Hannibal in Southern Italy. The Romans had kept him off by stirring up the robber tolians against him; and when he began to punish these wild neighbors, the Romans leagued themselves with the old Greek cities which Macedon oppressed, and a great war took place.

Titus Quinctius Flaminius commanded in Greece for four years, first as consul and then as proconsul. His crowning victory was at Cynocephal, or the Dogshead Rocks, where he so broke the strength of Macedon that at the Isthmian games he proclaimed the deliverance of Greece, and in their joy the people crowded round him with crowns and garlands, and shouted so loud that birds in the air were said to have dropped down at the sound.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was called Africanus?
2. Did he become a popular man?
3. Who did he bring defeated to Rome?
4. Did he treat Hannibal as his prisoner?
5. Why not?
6. What did Scipio take up?
7. What did he give up for this?
8. In exchange for what?
9. What was different about this war?
10. What had all the other conflicts been for?
11. Who led in Greece for four years?
12. Did his position change?
13. What was he initially?
14. And then?
15. True or False: He was defeated at the Dogshead Rocks.
16. Whose power did he vanquish there?
17. What were the Rocks also called?
18. Why did the birds fall?
19. Were they happy?
20. Where did Flaminius announce that Greece was saved?
A:
1. Scipio.
2. yes
3. Hannibal
4. no
5. Because Hannibal was so brave an enemy.
6. Greek learning and culture
7. Roman ruggedness
8. For the graces of philosophy and poetry.
9. It was the first for the sake of spreading their own power.
10. self-defence
11. Titus Quinctius Flaminius
12. Yes.
13. Consul.
14. proconsul
15. False
16. Macedon
17. Cynocephal
18. The people shouted so loud.
19. Yes.
20. at the Isthmian games