Q: A victor is, by definition, someone who wins a struggle or contest. However, that doesn't mean he or she will live a proud and happy life ever after, as Katniss Everdeen is about to discover in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Catching Fire, out in Chinese theaters on Nov 21, is set in a futuristic society called Panem. Every year its government holds a televised fight to the death. Two teenagers from each of the 12 districts of Panem are chosen to compete.

In the new film, last year's victors Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and her partner Peeta are back home after winning the 74thHunger Games. Katniss just wants to live a normal life. However, that never seems to happen. She has nightmares, which remind her that she is a killer.

Her worst nightmare comes true when the annual Hunger Games arrive again. The teenager finds herself back in the competition along with Peeta. Since Katniss brings hope to Panem through her courage, President Snow plans to use this year's Games to kill off Katniss and Peeta and in turn _ the fires of rebellion.

"This is the next step of Katniss' heroism and the next part of her journey to finding out who she is really going to be," Lawrence told Reuters.

Fast-paced and full of action, Catching Fire looks to outdo the success that the first film had in 2012. With a 97 percent rating on the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes, it is enjoying positive reviews. Critics have praised it for being faithful to the book written by American author Suzanne Collins. The Hollywood Reporter said that Catching Fire outshines the first movie a lot.

Jennifer Lawrence, who won a best actress Oscar this year for her 2012 movie Silver Linings Playbook, has helped Catching Fire find success, Forbes pointed out. The 23-year-old actress does well playing a young lady who hates what she was forced to do to stay alive yet is determined not to give up.

"Lawrence's down-to-earth personality in real life won the hearts of the public. So given a wildly popular first film that blew everyone away, a rising fan base and a lead performer beloved by the mainstream press and viewers, the sequel was always going to be big," Forbes noted.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is a victor?
2. Wins what?
3. What was the contest or struggle?
4. What happens in that?
5. How many people were in the fight?
6. Who were 2 of them?
7. How old are they?
8. Who played the part of Katniss?
9. Did she win any awards?
10. What did she win?
11. How old is she?
12. What makes her so well liked?
A: 1. someone who wins
2. a struggle or contest.
3. the annual Hunger Games
4. A televised fight to the death.
5. 24
6. Katniss and Peeta
7. They are teenagers
8. Jennifer Lawrence
9. Yes
10. best actress Oscar
11. 23-years old
12. Her down-to-earth personality
Q: Motown is an American record company. The record company was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan. The name, a portmanteau of "motor" and "town", has also become a nickname for Detroit. Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as an African American-owned record label that achieved significant crossover success. In the 1960s, Motown and its subsidiary labels (including Tamla Motown, the brand used outside the US) were the most successful proponents of what came to be known as the Motown Sound, a style of soul music with a distinct pop influence. During the 1960s, Motown achieved spectacular success for a small record company: 79 records in the Top Ten of the "Billboard" Hot 100 record chart between 1960 and 1969.

Following the events of the Detroit Riots of 1967, and the loss of key songwriting/production team Holland-Dozier-Holland the same year over pay disputes, Gordy began relocating Motown to Los Angeles. The move was completed in 1972 and Motown expanded into television and film production, remaining an independent company until June 28, 1988. The company was then sold to MCA Inc. Motown was later sold to PolyGram in 1994, before being sold again to MCA Records' successor, Universal Music Group, when it acquired PolyGram in 1999.

Answer the following questions:
1. what company did Berry start?
2. when?
3. what is it now known as?
4. when did it change?
5. how did the name originate?
6. from what city?
7. is that also a name for that city?
8. what did Motown help with?
9. how?
10. what brand was used outside the US?
11. what style of music did they create?
12. how many top 10 hits were produced early on?
A: 1. Tamla Records
2. January 12, 1959
3. Motown Record Corporation
4. April 14, 1960
5. a mix of "motor" and "town"
6. Detroit
7. Yes
8. the racial integration of popular music
9. as an African American-owned record label that achieved significant crossover success.
10. Tamla Motown
11. soul music with a distinct pop influence
12. 79 records
Q: CHAPTER XXVII ON THE TRACK

Never for a moment did Marguerite Blakeney hesitate. The last sounds outside the "Chat Gris" had died away in the night. She had heard Desgas giving orders to his men, and then starting off towards the fort, to get a reinforcement of a dozen more men: six were not thought sufficient to capture the cunning Englishman, whose resourceful brain was even more dangerous than his valour and his strength.

Then a few minutes later, she heard the Jew's husky voice again, evidently shouting to his nag, then the rumble of wheels, and noise of a rickety cart bumping over the rough road.

Inside the inn, everything was still. Brogard and his wife, terrified of Chauvelin, had given no sign of life; they hoped to be forgotten, and at any rate to remain unperceived: Marguerite could not even hear their usual volleys of muttered oaths.

She waited a moment or two longer, then she quietly slipped down the broken stairs, wrapped her dark cloak closely round her and slipped out of the inn.

The night was fairly dark, sufficiently so at any rate to hide her dark figure from view, whilst her keen ears kept count of the sound of the cart going on ahead. She hoped by keeping well within the shadow of the ditches which lined the road, that she would not be seen by Desgas' men, when they approached, or by the patrols, which she concluded were still on duty.

Thus she started to do this, the last stage of her weary journey, alone, at night, and on foot. Nearly three leagues to Miquelon, and then on to the Pere Blanchard's hut, wherever that fatal spot might be, probably over rough roads: she cared not.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who could be heard giving orders?
2. To whom?
3. Who overheard him?
4. Was she indecisive?
5. Was someone scared?
6. Who?
7. Where were they?
8. Were they having a loud party?
9. What were they doing?
10. Was was sneaking down steps?
11. Was it dark out?
12. What was she listening for?
A:
1. Desgas
2. his men
3. Marguerite Blakeney
4. no
5. yes
6. Brogard and his wife,
7. Inside the inn
8. no
9. had given no sign of life
10. tyes
11. yes
12. the sound of the cart