Q: An inventor seeks to create a new product that serves a specific need and fulfills a role that other products do not. Sometimes an inventor comes up with a wholly new idea, but more often inventions are simply improvements on an older design. With a little imagination and creativity , an old idea can suddenly become something new.

However, creating a new invention means much more than having a brilliant idea. A good designer follows the design process: identifying the challenge, researching and brainstorming ideas , designing a solution, testing and evaluating the ideas, and finally building the product. Designers also use science, math, technology, and engineering to design a tool that satisfies the need they identified.

Anyone can be an inventor --even kids! For example, Chester Greenwood was just fifteen years old when he invented a product that changed his life. In fact, his idea was so good that his invention supported him for the rest of his life. You may not know his name, but you probably know his invention --earmuffs !

The inspiration for his earmuff design came to Chester when he was ice-skating. His ears were cold, and he decided to find a way to keep them warm. With the help of his grandmother, he made a new product to protect his ears and at the age of eighteen, Chester patented his earmuff design.

Many other famous inventors started young as well. Margaret Knight --the inventor of the flat-bottomed brown paper bag --is said to have created a safety device for textile looms when she was just twelve years old. Another example is Thomas Edison, one of the greatest inventors in history, who applied for his first patent when he was just twenty-one years old. Over the course of his life, Thomas Edison patented a total of 1,093 inventions!

Answer the following questions:
1. The main topic of the subject?
2. Can non adults become inventors?
3. Is there an example given?
4. How old where they?
5. who was it?
6. What was his brain child?
7. Where did he get that notion?
8. Is ti common for brand new ideas over improvements?
9. Who had over 1,000 patents?
10. Was he considered one of the worst of all time?
A: 1. Inventors
2. Anyone can be an inventor --even kids!
3. Yes
4. fifteen
5. Chester Greenwood
6. earmuffs
7. While ice-skating?
8. no
9. Thomas Edison
10. no
Q: (CNN) -- The goals just keep flowing for Lionel Messi, who on Sunday surpassed soccer legend Pele's mark of 75 in a calendar year to help Barcelona bounce back from a rare defeat.

The Argentina star netted twice in the 4-2 win at Mallorca that kept the Catalans three points clear in Spain's La Liga, leaving him just nine short of Gerd Muller's all-time record.

The 25-year-old, who became a first-time father earlier this month, was able to put a bit more enthusiasm into his new thumb-sucking celebration than when he scored late in the shock midweek Champions League loss to Scottish side Celtic.

"Leo continually breaks records. His goal tally is spectacular," said Barca manager Tito Vilanova, who has yet to experience a domestic league defeat after his first 11 matches in charge, equaling the best start to a season set by Real Madrid.

"It takes other great players seven or eight seasons to score the amount of goals he scores in one season. Also, some of his goals are absolute beauties."

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Messi has now scored 64 goals for his club and 12 for his country this year, from just 59 matches overall.

Pele managed 75 from 53 as a 17-year-old in 1958, helping Brazil to win the World Cup for the first of a record five times.

Muller, a World Cup winner in 1974, surpassed Pele's record in a year that West Germany won the European Championship.

Messi has yet to win a senior title with Argentina, though he won Olympic gold with the under-23 side in 2008.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who surpassed Pele?
2. When did he score the goal to pass Pele?
3. What team does he play for?
4. Where is he from?
5. What was the final outcome of the last game?
6. Where?
7. How old is the Argentinian?
8. does he have any children?
9. Has he been a parent for long?
10. Is he known for breaking records?
11. How many nettings has he gotten this year?
12. Does he have a medal from the Olympics?
13. When?
A: 1. Lionel Messi
2. Sunday
3. Barcelona
4. Argentina
5. 4-2 win
6. Mallorca
7. 25
8. yes
9. no
10. yes
11. 11
12. yes
13. 2008
Q: CHAPTER XIV

IN DISTRESS

The clear night was falling when Jimmy leaned on the bridge-rails as the _Shasta_ steamed out of the Inlet beneath a black wall of pines. Over her port quarter the pale lights of the climbing city twinkled tier on tier, with dim forest rolling away behind them into the creeping mist. Beyond that, in turn, a faint blink of snow still gleamed against the dusky blueness of the east. All this was familiar, but he was leaving it behind, and ahead there lay an empty waste of darkening water, into which the _Shasta_ pushed her way with thumping engines and a drowsy gurgle at the bows. It seemed to Jimmy, in one sense, appropriate that it should be so. He had cut himself adrift from all that he had been accustomed to, and where the course he had launched upon would lead him he did not know.

That, however, did not greatly trouble him. His character was by no means a complex one, and it was sufficient for him to do the obvious thing, which, after all, usually saves everybody trouble. It was clear that Tom Wheelock needed him, and he could, at least, look back a little, though this was an occupation to which he was not greatly addicted. He understood now how his father, who had perhaps never been a strong man, had slowly broken down under a load of debt that was too heavy for him, though the nature of the man who had with deliberate intent laid it on his shoulders was incomprehensible. Jimmy, in fact, could scarcely conceive the possibility of any man scheming and plotting to ruin a fellow-being for the value of two old schooners. The apparently insufficient motive made the thing almost devilish. Merril, he felt, was outside the pale of humanity, a noxious creature to be shunned or, on opportunity, crushed by honest men.

Answer the following questions:
1. What was the night like when jimmy leaned on the bridge rails?
2. What boat traveled out of the inlet beneath a black wall of pines?
3. Was his character a complex one?
4. What did this allow him to do sufficiently?
5. What twinkled over the quarter of the Shasta's port?
6. Was the place he was Familiar to him?
7. Even though it was familar what was he going to do?
8. Who broke down under a load of debt?
9. Who in the storey is said to of needed Jimmy?
10. What is it Jimmy couldn't possibly conceive?
11. What had Jimmy cut himself adrift from?
12. Did he know where his life was taking him?
13. What rolled away behind the city?
14. What was beyond that?
A:
1. clear
2. the Shasta
3. No
4. the obvious thing
5. the pale lights of the climbing city
6. yes
7. he was going to leave it behind
8. Jimmy's father
9. Tom Wheelock
10. the possibility of any man scheming and plotting to ruin a fellow-being for the value of two old schooners.
11. from all that he had been accustomed to,
12. no
13. dim forest
14. a faint blink of snow still gleamed against the dusky blueness of the east.