Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

For many years,machines have been doing work that people once did,including some dit- ficutt jobs. Search and rescue operations in dangerous environments are often seen as the first areas that will employ high technology robots. But there is another area where they may soon take jobs traditionally held by human beings: the restaurant industry.

Teams from around the world competed in early June at the DARPA Robotic Challenge Finals in California. A team from South Korea and its robot,called DRC-Hubo,won the first place in the competition. The second and third place winners were from the United States. The robots were required to drive a vehicle,climb up steps and do mechanical work. Such activities are easy for humans to perform,but more difficult for machines. Not all of the competitor were successful. The failures showed how difficult it is to design effective walking

machines.

Akihiro Suzuki works at Yaskawa Electric,a company that develops robots. He says robots cannot do everything a human can,but they are able to work without becoming tired. He says robots cannot taste food,change heating levels or seasonings to get the best flavor .But he says if a food can be easily prepared,a robot can repeat the same movement to reproduce the same meal.

One Japanese woman who saw the robots working wanted to bring them home. Masayo Mori says she would like to have a husband who could work like a robot. Suzumo Machinery showed its sushi maker robot. It performs the often difficult work of wrapping the popular Japanese food. Hiroshi Monden is an official with the company. He says people all over the world now eat sushi,but there are not enough skilled workers to prepare it. He says his machine can help anyone make sushi.

1. Where does Akihiro Suzuki work?
2. And what do they do?
3. Are having machines that can do what humans do a new occurrence?
4. How long has it been that way?
5. Are there any new fields where this is beginning to happen?
6. What is an example?
7. Are there any other examples?
8. Does Suzuki think that robots are better in every way?
9. What are some of the advantages he lists?
10. And a disadvantage?
11. Does this prevent them from being able to be used for cooking?
12. If the recipe was easy, would they be able to do it?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Yaskawa Electric
2. develops robots
3. no
4. For many years
5. yes
6. he restaurant industry
7. drive a vehicle
8. no
9. work without becoming tired
10. cannot taste food
11. yes
12. yes

Question: (CNN) -- Sherlock Holmes is back, and it's more than elementary my dear Watson.

Eighty-one years after the death of his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and more than 100 years since the last original story, the world's greatest detective returns in a new novel, "The House of Silk."

The novel may be the peak of what's been recent Holmes renaissance, including "Sherlock," a successful, modern adaptation for the BBC. There's also a Hollywood film starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law which re-imagines Holmes and Watson as steampunk action heroes, it was a hit with movie-goers, even spawning a sequel this holiday.

Bookstore shelves are loaded with tributes, pastiches, spinoffs and repackaged versions of the "sacred 60," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 original short stories and 4 novels, but "The House of Silk" stands apart.

It's the first new Holmes novel authorized and written with the endorsement of the Conan Doyle estate.

Picking up the Meerschaum pipe is Anthony Horowitz, a bestselling novelist and television producer from Britain. Horowitz penned the extremely popular, Alex Rider series, about a teenage super-spy.

He's also written and produced several popular television dramas, including "Foyle's War," and "Midsomer Murders" both seen on PBS. Horowitz says he didn't tinker much with Conan Doyle's creation, hoping to preserve the flavor and tone of the original stories while giving the new novel a modern sensibility and pace.

"The House of Silk" is set in 1890, a London shrouded in fog and shadow, where Hansom cabs still roam the streets. Watson now lives in a retirement home, Holmes is dead a year. Watson recounts one of their earlier cases, so shocking; the pages of its telling have stayed in his solicitor's safe for 100 years. 1. How many years has it been since the original story was published?
2. What is the title of the new Book?
3. What is the new author's name?
4. Has he written other things?
5. What time period is the novel set in?
6. What has been in the safe for a century?
7. Why was it stored away?
8. Who was the original author?
9. What did he write?
10. How many stories in all?
11. Who is Alex Rider?
12. What aired on BBC? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. more than 100 years
2. "The House of Silk"
3. Anthony Horowitz
4. yes
5. 1890
6. the pages of a case
7. because it's so shocking
8. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. the Sherlock Holmes series
10. 56 original short stories and 4 novels
11. a teenage super-spy
12. "Sherlock,"

Q: When Mr. Brown entered the classroom that Friday morning, he stopped at the blackboard. For there, on the blackboard, were words in huge red letters: BROWN IS STUPID! Mr. Brown thought for a moment. This could only have been the work of one of the four boys who had been kept in after school the day before. Mr. Brown turned the blackboard around so that the words could not be seen. Half an hour later,Mr. Brown wrote four names on the board: Gerald, Alex, Michael and Laurie. Then he said, "I want these four to stay in the classroom. The rest of you may go to the playground." The four boys came to the blackboard. "One of you has written a most impolite remark on the blackboard," he stared at them and _ , "which one of you did it?" The four boys gathered closer together, afraid of what was to come. "Was it you, Gerald?" Gerald shook his head. "No, it was not me, Sir," he gave the teacher a most sincere look in his wide eyes. "What do you have to say, Alex?" "I don't know anything about it, Sir," said Alex, and his ears turned red. Michael had a bright idea. "Perhaps someone broke in during the night," he said. "And when he saw the lovely red chalk lying there, he wrote something on the blackboard." "Is that the best you can think so, Michael?" asked the teacher. "I only thought ..." "And what about you, Laurie?" Laurie said in a rather low voice, "I didn't do it, Sir. I don't even know what it says on the blackboard." "You really don't know what's written there?" Mr. Brown asked. "And I don't think dear Gerald knows either." "No, Sir. No idea." "Michael, Alex, can either of you tell me what it says on the blackboard?" "No, Sir!" the two boys answered together. Brown walked forward and his fingers seized a schoolboy. He said in his kindest and softest voice to the other three boys, "Very well. I only punish the one who has been telling lies, and you three may go to the playground!"

1. BROWN IS STUPID!
2. it could have been one of the four boys who had been kept in after school the day before
3. Perhaps someone broke in during the night

Numbered questions:
1. What was written on the blackboard?
2. Why did brown suspect the four boys?
3. How did Michael suggest the writing got on there?