Q: Having crossed mountains and plains, rivers and lakes, some of prefix = st1 /France's greatest works of art are now on display atChina's National Museum of fine Arts. Fifty-one Impressionist paintings are forming part of an exhibition inBeijingto kick off the Year of France.

The show is being held in the capital between October 10 and November 27. Then it will move on to Shanghai and Hong Kong.

"It is such a good opportunity to see the masters' works up close," said Feng Jiajia, a Senior student form the High School Affiliated to theAcademyofArtand Design. Although Feng is very busy with his studies at the moment he says he will definitely make time to see the exhibition. "I hope it will inspire me and help me with my own work," he said.

Worth a total of US $600 million, the paintings ate by French Impressionist masters, including Monet, Cezanne, Renoir and Degas.

As an art style, Impressionism was developed inFranceduring the late 19thand early 20thcenturies. Their work was a fresh and original way of painting. It seems that the artists painted a scene after just a quick look at it.

Often painting outside, rather than in a studio, the artists observed nature more directly and tried to capture individual moments in time especially the changing light of the sun. They avoided black and earth color1s and as a result their work is often very bright and can also look like that it is shining.

When they first appeared, the artists were criticized for not finishing their paintings and for being lazy. Critics said the Impressionists were satisfied with just a few inexact brushstrokes instead of completing a real painting. It was an art critic who first used the term "Impressionist" in a review of Monet's work "Impression, Sunrise"(1873) to satirize his loose, inexact manner of painting.

"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love," said Monet.

Monet is the leading figure in the creation of Impressionism. He painted sunlit rivers and gardens with forceful brushstrokes and bright color1s, in which objects lose their shape in the light. Monet's painting reached its height in his later life with his paintings of water lilies.

1. in China
2. Fifty-one
3. yes
4. Often, yes
5. Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love,
6. October 10 and November 27
7. very
8. hey avoided black
9. earth colors
10. yes often

Numbered questions:
1. Where are some of France's greatest works of art now on display?
2. How many Impressionist paintings are in the exhibition in Beijingto?
3. Was Impressionism developed in France?
4. Did Impressionist ever paint outside?
5. What did Monet say about how people discuss his art?
6. What is the running date of the show in China?
7. How busy is Feng with his studies?
8. Which colors did the Impressionists avoid?
9. And what other colors?
10. Were the works ever bright and shiny?

Q: (CNN) -- A Tulane University football player who fractured his spine in a head-on collision with a teammate during a weekend game is "alert and responsive" after surgery, the school's athletic director said Monday.

Devon Walker is expected to remain in intensive care for the next few days after a three-hour operation at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Sunday, the Tulane athletics department said. Walker, a safety for the Green Wave, was injured Saturday when he collided head-on with a teammate while trying to tackle a Tulsa ball carrier.

Rick Dickson, Tulane's athletic director, told reporters Monday afternoon that he was "absolutely thrilled" with the reports of Walker's condition, but had few details to offer.

"Devon is alert and responsive," Dickson said. "How that manifests beyond that, I don't know how to respond." He deferred questions about whether Walker was able to move parts of his body to doctors, saying the senior was "in the hands of extremely competent and dedicated professionals."

Film aims to show football's culture of playing despite concussions

Walker lay motionless on the Tulsa field as trainers and doctors rushed to him. Dr. Felix Savoie, an orthopedist for Tulane University and chief of sports medicine at the school, said after the game Walker suffered a "cervical spine fracture" as well as an edema, or swelling from a build-up of excess fluid, in his neck.

Tulane University's director of sports medicine Dr. Greg Stewart, who was with Walker on the field, said Sunday that, "for the most part, he was coherent" throughout the ordeal.

1. A Tulane University football player
2. he fractured his spine
3. in a head-on collision with a teammate
4. playing a weekend game
5. he is in intensive care
6. for the next few days
7. at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma
8. unknown
9. they aim to show football's culture of playing despite concussions
10. that he was "absolutely thrilled"
11. senior
12. a teammate
13. trying to tackle a Tulsa ball carrier

Numbered questions:
1. Who is Devon Walker?
2. What happened to him?
3. how?
4. what were they doing?
5. Is he okay?
6. Will he stay there long?
7. Where is he?
8. How does the school feel about this?
9. HOw does the school feel about his condition?
10. What did the athletic director say about his condition?
11. What grade is he in?
12. Who did he collide with?
13. what was he doing at the time?

Q: Few buildings on earth can compete with the legendary beauty of the Taj Mahal. Towering over the ancient Indian city of Agra, the Taj Mahal is the grandest monument to love ever created.

The lovers in this story are the 17th century Indian emperor Shah Jehan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal. She took a leading role in advising him, which is something unusual for a woman to do for a husband who's an emperor. Over the course of their nineteen-year marriage she gave birth to 14 children. But in 1631 while trying to deliver their fifteenth -- she tragically died. He was heartbroken when she died. And after her death, he decided to build the world's greatest monument ever built, for love.

He ordered the royal architects to design the most beautiful building the world had known and decided to name it after his beloved, Mumtaz Mahal. He called on twenty thousand workers and sent many more people to all corners of his country in search of valuable metals and jewels. And after seventeen years of hard work, Shah Jehan's monument was completed and his beloved empress was moved to her final resting place.

Everything had gone according to plan, but Shah Jehan's luck was about to change ... In 1658, just four years after the completion of the Taj Mahal, he was thrown out of power. Unfortunately, his son, Aran Azibe imprisoned him, his own father. And he spent the last seven years of his life in prison. And he was allowed to look at the Taj Mahal through a window. His life was in ruins, but when he died his last wish was promised. He was buried beside his beloved wife in the Taj Mahal.

1. Agra
2. Mumtaz Mahal
3. Shah Jehan
4. She took a leading role in advising him
5. the emperor
6. yes
7. 14
8. she died
9. while trying to deliver their fifteenth child
10. the Taj Mahal
11. He was buried beside her
12. he decided to build the world's greatest monument
13. seventeen years
14. twenty thousand
15. he was thrown out of power
16. his son
17. in prison
18. seven
19. to be buried beside his wife
20. yes

Numbered questions:
1. Where is the Taj Mahal?
2. Who is the wife int he story?
3. and the husband?
4. What was unusual about her?
5. Who was he?
6. Did they have a lot of children?
7. how many?
8. What happened to Mumtaz?
9. from what?
10. Where was she buried?
11. What about the husband when he died?
12. What did the husband do after the wife died?
13. How long did it take?
14. and how many people helped?
15. what happened four years after completion?
16. by who?
17. where did he put his father?
18. for how many years did he stay?
19. What was his final wish?
20. was he?