Problem: "How many common English words were invented by Shakespeare?" How long did it take people to find the answer to this question 15 years ago? And now! you can google it and find the answer immediately! Google is the most popular Internet search engine in the world. It was invented by two students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They met in 1993, when they were studying computer science at Stanford University, USA. They dreamed of producing something that could also answer any question in seconds. Internet search engines at that time were slow and gave many websites that weren't useful. In January 1996, Page and Brin decided to make a better and faster search engine. They thought the results should be based on the most popular websites. Nobody would give them money for their project, so they used their own money. They also borrowed money from family and friends. Then, in 1998, they were given a _ for $100,000, and they started their own company. Their first office was in a friend's garage. The company's name is Google, a word which comes from mathematics. A "google" is a very high number---- 1 followed by a hundred zeros. The google search engine was soon used by thousands of people worldwide because it was fast, easy and correct. By 2002 it was the biggest search engine on the Internet. Now, more questions have been answered by Google than any other Internet service, from sport to science, and from music to medicine. Google hopes that in the future all the world's information will be put on the Internet, so that everybody can find everything.
1. What is google?
2. When was it created?
3. by who?
4. How did they know each other?
5. What was their dream?
6. Did they have a lot of contributors?
7. How did they fund it?
8. Were was their office?
9. where did the name come from?
10. What does it mean?
11. Did many use it?
12. Was it used just in the US?
13. Is it a large company now?
14. Have there been a lot of searches?
15. how many?
16. What are there hopes for the future?
17. HOw quick can you find an answer now?
18. What year did they decide to do this?
19. by 2002 what happened?
Answer: 1. a search engine
2. in 1998
3. Larry Page and Sergey Brin
4. They met studying computer science at Stanford University, USA
5. To produce something that could answer any question in seconds
6. No
7. Their own money, borrowing from family and friends, and finally given a loan for 100,000
8. in a friend's garage
9. a word from mathematics
10. a very high number---- 1 followed by a hundred zeros
11. yes
12. No
13. Yes
14. Yes
15. more questions have been answered than any other Internet service
16. all the world's information will be put on the Internet
17. immediately
18. 1996
19. it was the biggest search engine on the Internet

Problem: CHAPTER XXVIII

A dozen times that morning, dictating to Blake or indicating answers, Dick had been on the verge of saying to let the rest of the correspondence go.

"Call up Hennessy and Mendenhall," he told Blake, when, at ten, the latter gathered up his notes and rose to go. "You ought to catch them at the stallion barn. Tell them not to come this morning but to-morrow morning."

Bonbright entered, prepared to shorthand Dick's conversations with his managers for the next hour.

"And--oh, Mr. Blake," Dick called. "Ask Hennessy about Alden Bessie.-- The old mare was pretty bad last night," he explained to Bonbright.

"Mr. Hanley must see you right away, Mr. Forrest," Bonbright said, and added, at sight of the irritated drawing up of his employer's brows, "It's the piping from Buckeye Dam. Something's wrong with the plans--a serious mistake, he says."

Dick surrendered, and for an hour discussed ranch business with his foremen and managers.

Once, in the middle of a hot discussion over sheep-dips with Wardman, he left his desk and paced over to the window. The sound of voices and horses, and of Paula's laugh, had attracted him.

"Take that Montana report--I'll send you a copy to-day," he continued, as he gazed out. "They found the formula didn't get down to it. It was more a sedative than a germicide. There wasn't enough kick in it..."

Four horses, bunched, crossed his field of vision. Paula, teasing the pair of them, was between Martinez and Froelig, old friends of Dick, a painter and sculptor respectively, who had arrived on an early train. Graham, on Selim, made the fourth, and was slightly edged toward the rear. So the party went by, but Dick reflected that quickly enough it would resolve itself into two and two.
1. How long did Dick discuss business?
2. With whom?
3. What kind of business where they talking about?
4. Which of the men left the conversation desk?
5. Where did he go?
6. What sound caught his interest?
7. Did he see her?
8. How many horses were near her?
9. Was Paula interacting with them?
10. Doing what?
11. Which one of Dick's friends was a painter?
12. Did he also know a sculptor?
13. Who?
14. Had they been friends for a long time?
15. When did they arrive?
16. Who was the rider at the back of the group?
Answer:
1. for an hour
2. his foremen and managers
3. ranch business
4. Dick
5. over to the window
6. Paula's laugh
7. Yes
8. Four horses
9. Yes
10. teasing them
11. Martinez
12. Yes
13. Froelig
14. Yes
15. an early train
16. Selim