Question:
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates has talked about to be a good parent, saying that 13 is a right age for a child's first mobile phone. The 57-year-old father of three said on the Today show that his children Jennifer and Rory were not allowed phones until their thirteen birthday and his youngest daughter Phoebe is still waiting for one. "We've made a rule in our family that it's 13 when you get a phone." He also said as a resulthischild often returned homefromschool complaining, "All the other kids have it, I'm the only without it, it's so embarrassing." Asked if he keeps passwords to his son and daughters' e-mail and Facebook accounts . Mr Gates said that he doesn't for Jennifer, 16, who he says is "old enough". Besides their wealth Mr and Mrs Gates ,who live in Lake Medina, have said they want to raise their three children as usually as possible. It is said that their kids have to do housework at home after school and aren't given much pocket money. And in 2010Mr Gates said that he wanted to give most of his $61 billion away rather than hand it down. "That wouldn't be good either for my kids or society," he said. Mr Gates left Microsoft in 2008 to put his heart to charity. During the Today interview with host Matt Lauer, he said that helping others made him feel happy as creating software. " What you really feel is what you've achieved. If a piece of software gets out there and lots of people love it--it lets them get their work down in better ways--that's exciting." he replied.
1. Who is the founder of Microsoft?
2. How old is he?
3. Is he a dad?
4. Does he have a teenager?
5. What was his stance on cellular devices?
6. where do they live?
7. How do they wish to rear their offspring?
8. What did he wish to do with his fortune?
9. Did he leave his company?
10. What year?
11. Why?
12. What had him feeling so joyful as making computer stuff?
13. Who was the tv man that spoke to him ?
14. what allows them to have their jobs done in the best?

Numbered answers:
1. Bill Gates
2. 57
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. 13 is a right age for a child's first mobile phone.
6. Lake Medina
7. as usually as possible
8. give it away
9. Yes
10. 2008
11. to put his heart to charity.
12. helping others
13. Matt Lauer
14. a piece of software

Question:
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Northern Europeans spend a lot of time in their cold and cloudy winters planning their summer holidays. They are proud of their healthy color when they return home after the holiday. But they also know that a certain amount of sunshine is good for their bodies and general health.

In ancient Greece people knew about the healing powers of the sun, but this knowledge was lost. At the end of the nineteenth century a Danish doctor, Niels Finsen, began to study the effect of sunlight on certain diseases, especially diseases of the skin. He was interested not only in natural sunlight but also in artificially produced rays. Sunlight began to play a more important part in curing sick people.

A Swiss doctor, Auguste Rollier, made full use of the sun in his hospital at Lysine. Lysine is a small village high up in the Alps. The position is important: the rays of the sun with the greatest healing power are the infra-red and ultra-violet rays; but ultra-violet rays are too easily lost in fog and the polluted air near industrial towns. Dr. Roller found that sunlight, fresh air and good food cure a great many diseases. He was particularly successful in curing certain forms of tuberculosis with his "sun-cure".

There were a large number of children in Dr. Roller's hospital. He decided to start a school where sick children could be cured and at the same time continue to learn. It was not long before his school was full.

In winter, wearing only shorts, socks and boots, the children put on their skis after breakfast and left the hospital. They carried small desks and chairs as well as their school books. Their teacher led them over the snow until they reached a slope which faced the sun and was free from cold winds. There they set out their desks and chairs, and school began.

Although they wore hardly any clothes, Roller's pupils were very seldom cold. That was because their bodies were full of energy which they got from the sun. But the doctor knew that sunshine can also be dangerous. If, for example, tuberculosis is attacking the lungs, unwise sunbathing may do great harm.

Today there is not just one school in the sun. There are several in Switzerland, and since Switzerland is not the only country which has the right conditions, there are similar schools in other places.
1. Who started an outdoor school in Switzerland?
2. How did they reach their destination in winter?
3. Did they take their own desks and chairs with them?
4. What else?
5. What was one factor is choosing where to set up their desks?
6. What else?
7. Weren't the students cold?
8. Were they wearing a lot of clothing?
9. Then why weren't they freezing?
10. Is there a condition in which sunlight can be dangerous?
11. What is that?
12. Where in Switzerland is Rollier's school?
13. Is it the only one in the country?
14. Which rays have the greatest effect?
15. What does fog do to ultra violet rays?
16. Are they stronger near big cities?
17. What things did Dr. Rollier believe helped fix many diseases?
18. Any others?
19. What do people from Northern Europe spend a lot of time on during the winter?
20. What ancient civilization was aware of the sun's powers?
Numbered answers:
1. Auguste Rollier
2. on skis
3. yes
4. school books
5. was free from cold winds
6. faced the sun
7. No.
8. No
9. their bodies were full of energy
10. Yes
11. If tuberculosis is attacking the lungs
12. Lysine
13. No
14. infra-red and ultra-violet rays
15. they get lost
16. no
17. Sunlight
18. artificially produced rays
19. planning their summer holidays
20. Greece